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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2024 , filed 17 November 2025. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Those are the same on the two returns, so the amendment changed something else.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,832,659
Total expenses
$1,044,009
Contributions and grants received
$1,832,659
Grants paid
$100,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$989,769
Total liabilities, end of year
$83,114
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$906,655
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$642,000
Management and general expenses
$184,973
Fundraising expenses
$217,036
Program service expenses (Part III)
$642,000

Program services were 61.5% 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

    $1,832,659

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $100,000 · program services $100,000

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $123,411 · management and general $123,411

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $18,750 · management and general $18,750

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $168,947 · fundraising $168,947

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $413,950 · program services $337,490 · management and general $29,360 · fundraising $47,100

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $395 · program services $395

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $26,743 · program services $19,489 · management and general $7,210 · fundraising $44

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,344 · program services $4,344

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $250 · program services $250

  • 17 · Travel

    total $53,956 · program services $47,513 · management and general $5,498 · fundraising $945

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $132,519 · program services $132,519

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $175 · management and general $175

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $569 · management and general $569

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $118,005 · end of year $869,672

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $112,258

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $664

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

    $7,350

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

    $175

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $7,175

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    end of year $83,114

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $118,005 · end of year $906,655

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO PROMOTING TRUTH AND TRANSPARENCY IN PUBLIC LIFE. THEY ARE COMMITTED TO FOSTERING EDUCATION, SHAPING CULTURE THROUGH THE ARTS, CONTRIBUTING TO LEGAL INITIATIVES AND 1ST AMENDMENT DEFENSE, AND SUPPORT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM. THEIR MISSION IS TO CREATE A MORE INFORMED AND ACCOUNTABLE SOCIETY, EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS TO MAKE WELL- INFORMED DECISIONS.

  • THE FIRST ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE FOUNDATION WAS ITS FIRST FUNDED INVESTIGATION WHICH EXPOSED A SECRET MIGRANT CENTER RUN BY THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC)WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR FUNDING THE BUSING OF THOUSANDS OF MIGRANT REFUGEES EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR TO PHOENIX SKY HARBOR AIRPORT. THE IRC WAS GIVEN 415 MILLION FROM THE FEDS TO GIVE THE PRETENSE OF REFUGEE STATUS AND FLY THEM ON FLIGHTS OUT OF TERMINAL 3 AND 4. AN EDUCATIONAL VIDEO WAS MADE AVAIBLE TO THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION.

  • ELECTION WATCH INC.-HELPED THE ORGANIZATION UNCOVER FEDERAL ELECTION CONTRIBUTION WEBSITES SMURFS COMMITTING MONEY LAUNDERING. OUR JOURNALISTS UNCOVERED THAT THE FEC WEBSITE HAD HUNDREDS OF DONATIONS IN THE NAME OF SPECIFIC PERSONS WHO HAD NEVER MADE THE DONATIONS. 1789 FOUNDATION HELPED US DEFEND ZACH APOTHEKER AFTER COMING FORWARD AS A WHISTLEBLOWER AND BEING RETALIATED AGAINST.

    Expenses $642,000 · Grants $100,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Vincent Calitri

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • James O'Keefe III

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Robert Downes Jr

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
11 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202503159349304160

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