Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$10,436,834

Total expenses

$5,092,164

Contributions and grants received

$10,241,796

Grants paid

$237,848

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$195,038

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$12,247,055

Total liabilities, end of year

$917,153

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$11,329,902

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,653,271

Management and general expenses

$293,489

Fundraising expenses

$145,404

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,653,271

Program services were 91.4% 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

• MONGABAY NEWS:IN 2022 MONGABAY PUBLISHED NEARLY 5,000 STORIES IN SIX LANGUAGES COVERING MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES. THIS REPORTING ATTRACTED 61 MILLION USERS TO MONGABAY'S WEBSITE, INCLUDING VISITORS FROM NEARLY EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH. COLLECTIVELY, THESE VISITORS SPENT 11.9 MILLION HOURS READING NEWS ARTICLES IN 2022.CRITICAL ECOSYSTEMS EXPERIENCING ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND ACUTE THREATS REMAINED AT THE HEART OUR 2022 COVERAGE. WHILE WE REMAINED COMMITTED TO OUR LONGTIME REPORTAGE ON TROPICAL FORESTS, WILDLIFE, LAND RIGHTS, EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE, WE EXPANDED OUR COVERAGE OF OCEANS, CONSERVATION AND NATURE-BASED CLIMATE SOLUTIONS, GLOBAL-SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES, PHILANTHROPY, COMMODITIES AND SUPPLY CHAINS, AS WELL AS THE GROWING ROLE AND RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN CONSERVATION. IN ADDITION TO OUR ORIGINAL WRITTEN REPORTING, WE CONTINUED TO EXPAND OUR STORYTELLING VIA MULTIPLE FORMATS. WE PRODUCED HUNDREDS INNOVATIVE DATA-VISUALIZATIONS AND SHORT-FORM VIDEOS, INCLUDING NEW SERIES LIKE CONSUMED WHERE MONGABAY TRACKS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS THROUGH THEIR LIFECYCLE. WE ALSO PRODUCED 60 PODCASTS IN 2022, INCLUDING A 7-PART "MONGABAY EXPLORES" DEEP DIVE INTO CONSERVATION ISSUES IN NEW GUINEA. IN LATE 2022, THE PODCAST TEAM WORKED WITH A PAIR OF AWARD-WINNING JOURNALISTS TO PRODUCE A 3-PART, TRUE CRIME-STYLE INVESTIGATIVE SERIES ABOUT THE UK'S GROWING WASTE CRISIS, "INTO THE WASTELAND."THROUGHOUT THE YEAR MONGABAY SET THE STAGE TO SCALE UP TRANSPARENCY IN THE REFORESTATION AND TREE-PLANTING SECTOR BY DEVELOPING AND ENGAGING A DEDICATED COMMUNITY INTERESTED IN REFORESTATION VIA A TOPIC-SPECIFIC NEWSLETTER AND OUR PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY TOOL REFORESTATION.APP. SINCE THE LAUNCH OF THE REFORESTATION INITIATIVE IN LATE 2021, WE'VE CULTIVATED A COMMUNITY OF MORE THAN 1,000 INDIVIDUALS INCLUSIVE OF PROMINENT FIGURES AND STAKEHOLDERS. OUR TEAM AND NETWORK OF CONTRIBUTORS CONTINUED TO EXPAND. THE STAFF HEADCOUNT GREW BY 13%. THIS GROWTH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED OUR EDITORIAL CAPACITY IN NEPAL, BANGLADESH AND AFRICA, WHERE WE'RE DOING MORE FRENCH-FIRST COVERAGE. IN TOTAL, WE HAD MORE THAN 1,000 PEOPLE WRITE FOR MONGABAY DURING THE YEAR.MONGABAY CONTINUED TO RECEIVE GROWING RECOGNITION FOR ITS ACHIEVEMENTS AND REPORTING, WHILE MEMBERS OF STAFF WON INDIVIDUAL ACCOLADES. THESE RANGED FROM THE HEINZ AWARD FOR CEO RHETT AYERS BUTLER TO REGULAR TV APPEARANCES FOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR KARLA MENDES TO CALL-OUTS BY JOURNALISTS FROM OTHER RECOGNIZED PUBLICATIONS LIKE THE NEW YORK TIMES.MUCH OF 2022 WAS SPENT DEVELOPING A STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WILL GUIDE THE ORGANIZATION'S DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OVER THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS. AFTER A LONG STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PROCESS, MONGABAY EXPECTS TO FINALIZE ITS 2023-2030 STRATEGIC PLAN IN MAY 2023.MONGABAY CONTINUED TO SEE IMPORTANT IMPACTS RESULTING FROM OUR REPORTING, ESPECIALLY INVESTIGATIONS. THESE RANGE FROM THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING A QUESTIONABLE CARBON DEAL IN SABAH TO A COMMUNITY SECURING FUNDING AFTER WE COVERED THEIR CONSERVATION EFFORTS.

  Expenses $4,555,493 · Grants $237,848

• MONGABAY EDUCATION:MONGABAY'S EDUCATION INITIATIVE, WHICH PROVIDES MATERIALS GEARED TOWARD ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS FOR EDUCATORS, PUBLISHED NEARLY 200 POSTS IN 2022. MONGABAY KIDS A GLOBAL AUDIENCE THAT'S CONTINUING TO GROW SINCE ITS OFFICIAL LAUNCH IN 2021. IN 2022 MONGABAY KIDS ESTABLISHED AN ACADEMIC ADVISORY PANEL TO HELP BETTER UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF ITS USERS AND ESTABLISH ITSELF AS AN ESSENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESOURCE FOR KIDS AROUND THE WORLD.

  Expenses $97,778

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

6 September 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202302539349300400

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