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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS INCORPORATED.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,110,409
Total expenses
$1,321,072
Contributions and grants received
$2,089,719
Grants paid
$673,953
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$20,005
Other revenue
$685
Total assets, end of year
$2,269,537
Total liabilities, end of year
$670,262
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,599,275
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,089,431
Management and general expenses
$172,861
Fundraising expenses
$58,780
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,089,431

Program services were 82.5% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,089,719

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $23,114 · excluded $23,114

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    other assets -$3,109

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    other assets -$3,109

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$3,109 · excluded -$3,109

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other Income

    total $685 · related or exempt $685

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $685

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $673,953 · program services $673,953

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $131,450 · program services $99,080 · management and general $18,075 · fundraising $14,295

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $209,106 · program services $157,615 · management and general $28,751 · fundraising $22,740

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $17,774 · program services $13,397 · management and general $2,444 · fundraising $1,933

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $34,776 · program services $26,212 · management and general $4,782 · fundraising $3,782

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $29,298 · program services $22,083 · management and general $4,029 · fundraising $3,186

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $64,530 · program services $1,736 · management and general $62,309 · fundraising $485

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $2,674 · management and general $2,674

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $28,367 · program services $764 · management and general $27,390 · fundraising $213

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $14,176 · program services $6,620 · management and general $5,788 · fundraising $1,768

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $16,567 · program services $12,487 · management and general $2,278 · fundraising $1,802

  • 17 · Travel

    total $32,041 · program services $24,151 · management and general $4,406 · fundraising $3,484

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $19,547 · program services $16,048 · management and general $3,499

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,152 · program services $868 · management and general $158 · fundraising $126

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $45,661 · program services $34,417 · management and general $6,278 · fundraising $4,966

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $555,557 · end of year $881,883

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $220,016 · end of year $1,098,872

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $5,510

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $4,126 · end of year $4,451

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $4,592

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $1,955

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $2,566 · end of year $2,637

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $253,102 · end of year $278,336

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,120 · end of year $3,358

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $254,688 · end of year $670,262

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $697,852 · end of year $1,358,364

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $91,457 · end of year $240,911

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Reporters Without Borders is an organization defending freedom of the press and denouncing attacks on the right to inform and to be informed.

  • Various public- awareness campaigns and information gathering on the attacks on the press freedom worldwide and in the United States, including the defense of sources. Confidentiality support to journalists jailed for doing their jobs, to the relatives of slain journalists and to an independent media. Fight against impunity enjoyed by journalists murderers around the world, including the Middle East, Mexico and Russia. Fight to obtain freedom of journalists imprisoned around the world. Work on corporate responsibility for IT companies operating in internet restricting countries.

    Expenses $1,089,431 · Grants $673,953

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Clayton Weimers

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $140,324
    From this org
    $131,450
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,874
    Hours/week
    40

  • Emmanuel Saint-Martin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Christophe Deloire

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Elizabeth O Colton

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Thibaut Bruttin

    Interim-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
2025
Filed
16 June 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202611679349300831

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