Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$2,443,342

Total expenses

$2,488,396

Contributions and grants received

$2,312,392

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$130,950

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,249,729

Total liabilities, end of year

$197,333

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,052,396

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,768,327

Management and general expenses

$558,226

Fundraising expenses

$161,843

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,768,327

Program services were 71.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• RESOLVE PHILLY'S PURPOSE IS TO DEVELOP AND ADVANCE JOURNALISM ROOTED IN EQUITY, COLLABORATION, AND THE ELEVATION OF COMMUNITY VOICES AND SOLUTIONS, WHICH THE CORPORATION ACHIEVES BY UNDERTAKING THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES: BUILDING, MANAGING, AND EXECUTING SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM COLLABORATIVE REPORTING PROJECTS, DEVELOPING NARRATIVE RESOURCES AND DIGITAL TOOLS FOR NEWSROOMS, PUBLISHING NEWSLETTERS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS, AND RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF NEWSROOM AND COMMUNITY IMPACT.

  Expenses $280,084 · Revenue $130,950

• REFRAME - A NEW INITIATIVE THAT AIMS TO HELP JOURNALISTS IMPROVE THE ACCURACY AND AUTHENTICITY OF THEIR COVERAGE OF MISREPRESENTED AND UNDERREPRESENTED INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES AND THUS BUILD TRUST WITH THEIR AUDIENCES THROUGH PRECISE, HUMAN-CENTERED LANGUAGE. RESOLVE IS DEVELOPING A SET OF TOOLS AND RESOURCES THAT WILL HELP NEWSROOMS USE MORE ACCURATE, INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THEIR COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE EDITORIAL PROCESS. RESOLVE PARTNERS WITH JOURNALISTS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, EDUCATORS AND INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADERS TO CREATE TOOLS THAT WILL WORK FOR EVERYDAY JOURNALISTS.

  Expenses $138,575

• EQUALLY INFORMED - WORKS TO BRIDGE THE INFORMATION DIVIDE, REDUCING BARRIERS FOR VULNERABLE RESIDENTS WHO NEED TRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION TO LIVE AND THRIVE IN PHILLY. EQUALLY INFORMED ALSO INVEST DEEPLY IN UNDERESTIMATED VOICES AND COMMUNITY STORYTELLERS. EQUALLY INFORMED PROVIDES A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PRINT NEWSLETTER AND THE EQUAL INFO LINE, A FREE BI-LINGUAL (ENGLISH AND SPANISH) QUESTION AND ANSWER TEXTING SERVICE THAT ALSO PROVIDES VETTED LOCAL NEWS AND RESOURCES TO SUBSCRIBERS.

  Expenses $614,216

• FOSTER CARE : OUR KIDS: THE CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY OF PHILADELPHIA'S CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM IS A PROJECT OF RESOLVE PHILLY. WE COVER THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM THROUGH SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM AND ONGOING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORK WITH THOSE MOST DIRECTLY AFFECTED.

  Expenses $139,071

• SHAKE THE TABLE ("STT") EMPOWERS COMMUNITIES TO HOLD THEIR ELECTED CITY OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE BY DEMYSTIFYING CITY GOVERNMENT PROCESSES AND OPERATING DEPARTMENTS. WITH CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY AT THE CORE OF ITS APPROACH, RESOLVE LAUNCHED STT IN APRIL 2022 AS A SIX YEAR REPORTING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECT THAT PROVIDES CLEAR MECHANISMS AND NEW CHANNELS FOR RESIDENTS TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE WITH CITY GOVERNMENT. THROUGH THIS WORK, RESOLVE EQUIPS PHILADELPHIANS WITH THE SKILLS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND AND INTERROGATE THE LARGER SYSTEMS THAT TYPICALLY THWART RESIDENT-DRIVEN AND LONG-TERM APPROACHES TO SOLVING A COMMUNITY'S MOST URGENT CHALLENGES.

  Expenses $224,559

• MODIFIER SINCE EARLY 2021, RESOLVE'S CO-FOUNDERS AND THEIR TEAM HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING JOURNALISM ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE NATION IN BECOMING THE MOST EQUITABLE VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES, IN BOTH THEIR WORK AND OPERATIONS. MODIFIER WAS CREATED IN 2022 TO COMBINE THIS GROWING CONSULTING PRACTICE WITH THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORK THAT THE WIDER RESOLVE TEAM HAS BEEN CONDUCTING AS ITS KNOWLEDGE BASE EXPANDED. THIS INCLUDES THE WORK OF REFRAME, OUR PREVIOUS INITIATIVE DEVOTED TO EDUCATION ON LANGUAGE AND FRAMING, AS WELL AS THE WORK OF OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND COLLABORATIVE JOURNALISM TEAMS.

  Expenses $103,158

• PROGRAM RESOLVE'S PROGRAMS SHARE SEVERAL RESOURCES WHICH ENHANCE THEIR EFFICIENCY AND INCREASE THEIR IMPACT. THESE RESOURCES CONSIST MAINLY OF TWO DIFFERENT COMPONENTS, THE FIRST BEING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES THAT AIM TO BUILD TRUST AND MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NEWS MEDIA AND THE COMMUNITIES WHO RESOLVE IS REPORTING FOR AND ABOUT. THE OTHER IS PROGRAM SPECIFIC COMMUNICATIONS WHICH BOLSTER THE AWARENESS OF THE WORK THAT RESOLVE IS DOING AND THE IMPACT THAT RESOLVE IS HAVING IN PHILADELPHIA THROUGH EACH OF THE SPECIFIC INITIATIVES THAT RESOLVE RUNS.

  Expenses $268,664

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

15 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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