Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$6,325,328

Total expenses

$5,305,824

Contributions and grants received

$6,320,415

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$4,913

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$9,607,905

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,017,558

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$8,590,347

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$3,986,803

Management and general expenses

$745,087

Fundraising expenses

$573,934

Program service expenses (Part III)

$3,986,803

Program services were 75.1% 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

• TECHNOLOGY - OUR BIGGEST AND MOST IMPACTFUL INVESTIGATIONS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT DATASHARE, THE RESEARCH PLATFORM WE CREATED AND NOW MAKE AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WHO NEEDS TO ANALYZE MASSIVE TROVES OF DATA. THE SOFTWARE WE DEVELOPED IS NOW BEING USED BY UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, NGOS AND OTHER JOURNALISTS WORKING ON THEIR OWN INVESTIGATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. A KEY FEATURE OF DATASHARE IS ITS ABILITY TO SEARCH MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOCUMENTS (PDFS, SPREADSHEETS, SLIDES, IMAGES, TEXT DOCUMENTS, ETC.) TO SORT INFORMATION, EXTRACT EMAIL ADDRESSES AND RECOGNIZE NAMES OF PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS AND LOCATIONS BASED ON THEIR CONTEXT. WE USE DATASHARE TO DEVELOP STORY IDEAS, TO CALCULATE KEY FINDINGS, TO STRUCTURE DATA, AND TO RECOGNIZE PATTERNS AND TRENDS THAT DRIVE THEIR REPORTING.RESEARCH AND DATA - ICIJ MAINTAINS A GROWING REPOSITORY OF MORE THAN 40 MILLION DOCUMENTS USED BY REPORTERS AND PARTNERS IN ICIJ INVESTIGATIONS. ADDITIONALLY, WE PROVIDE PUBLIC ACCESS TO 930,000 RECORDS IN OUR OFFSHORE LEAKS AND INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICES DATABASES. ANYONE CAN USE THEM TO DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH ON OFFSHORE COMPANIES OR ON MEDICAL DEVICE RECALLS, SAFETY ALERTS AND FIELD SAFETY NOTICES. MORE THAN 5 MILLION UNIQUE VISITORS USED OUR DATA LAST YEAR, VIEWING 16.8 MILLION PAGES. THAT'S AN AVERAGE OF 1,918 VIEWS EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY.

  Expenses $2,033,115

• EDITORIAL PROGRAM - OUR REVOLUTIONARY COLLABORATIVE MODEL REDEFINED JOURNALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND EXPERTISE ALLOW HUNDREDS OF JOURNALISTS TO WORK TOGETHER ACROSS BORDERS TO PRODUCE IMPACTFUL, CONTEXTUAL, INSIGHTFUL PIECES THAT NO SINGLE NEWSROOM COULD PRODUCE ON ITS OWN. IN 2022, OUR NETWORK GREW TO 290 JOURNALISTS FROM MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES WHO EXPOSED GLOBAL INEQUITIES ON A WIDER VARIETY OF TOPICS THAN ICIJ HAS EVER COVERED BEFORE. THEIR REPORTING EXPOSED GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, MONEY LAUNDERING AND TAX-EVASION SCHEMES THAT INVOLVED SOME OF THE WEALTHIEST AND MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. THEIR STORIES CHALLENGED THE WAY PEOPLE SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AROUND THEM AND HELPED GENERATE BADLY NEEDED REFORM.FIRST, THE ERICCSON LIST EXPOSED SECRET DEALS WITH IRAQI MILITANTS THAT ALLOWED A SWEDISH TELECOM GIANT TO AVOID CUSTOMS AND SMUGGLE EQUIPMENT INTO TERRORIST-HELD AREAS. THE UBER FILES REVEALED HOW AN AGGRESSIVE LOBBYING STRATEGY HELPED THE RIDE-HAILING GIANT COZY UP TO WORLD LEADERS, AVOID TAXES AND BURST INTO NEW MARKETS IN DEFIANCE OF LOCAL ORDINANCES. SHADOW DIPLOMATS TOLD HOW ROGUE HONORARY CONSULS UNDERMINE AN OBSCURE SYSTEM OF GLOBAL DIPLOMACY TO SMUGGLE GOODS ACROSS BORDERS AND EVADE JUSTICE. HIDDEN TREASURES BROUGHT TO LIGHT SHOCKING DETAILS ABOUT TRAFFICKED ART AND CULTURAL ARTIFACTS THAT LANDED IN PROMINENT COLLECTIONS INCLUDING AT NEW YORK'S METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. THOSE ARE JUST A FEW OF OUR BIGGEST PROJECTS IN 2022.IMMEDIATELY AFTER RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE, OUR JOURNALISTS DUG INTO OUR MASSIVE DATA SETS AND EXPOSED SHELL COMPANIES THAT OLIGARCHS WERE USING TO BYPASS SANCTIONS. ANOTHER ICIJ TEAM DISCOVERED ILLEGAL LABOR PRACTICES USED BY U.S. MILITARY CONTRACTORS WHILE OTHER REPORTERS SHED NEW LIGHT ON MISTREATMENT OF CHINESE UYGHURS IN XINJIANG DETENTION CAMPS. IN EUROPE, ICIJ REPORTERS AND PARTNERS USED DOCUMENTS TO EXPOSE THE INNER WORKINGS OF A VIOLENT IRISH GANG OF DRUG TRAFFICKERS. OUR 2022 REPORTING LED TO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FINES, MASS PROTESTS ACROSS EUROPE, INTERNATIONAL INQUIRIES AND INVESTIGATIONS OF UBER'S LOBBYING PRACTICES, DISMISSALS OF HONORARY CONSULS AND THE RETURN OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN LOOTED ANTIQUITIES. IT COULD BE YEARS BEFORE WE KNOW THE FULL IMPACT OF OUR WORK IN 2022. THAT'S BEEN THE CASE WITH OUR PREVIOUS PROJECTS WHOSE EFFECTS STILL REVERBERATE TODAY. ICIJ'S WORK IS CRUCIAL TO THE HEALTH OF DEMOCRACY AND TO THE WELLBEING OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. BY EXPOSING CORRUPTION, WRONGDOING AND INEQUITY, WE HOLD POWER TO ACCOUNT AND PROVIDE INFORMATION THE WORLD NEEDS TO RIGHT ITSELF.

  Expenses $1,953,688

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 September 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

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