Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$735,300

Total expenses

$969,430

Contributions and grants received

$735,300

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$213,591

Total liabilities, end of year

$84,773

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$128,818

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$614,604

Management and general expenses

$116,762

Fundraising expenses

$238,084

Program service expenses (Part III)

$614,604

Program services were 63.4% 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 · 2025

• IN 2025, NEW RISING VENTURES CONTINUED TO BUILD STRONG MOMENTUM ACROSS OUR RESPONSIBLE AI AND LATINE VOICES FOR DEMOCRACY INITIATIVES, WHILE DEEPENING OUR FOCUS ON INTERNAL CULTURE AND OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY. LATINE VOICES FOR DEMOCRACY (LV4D) IS THE FIRST U.S.-BASED ACCELERATOR OF ITS KIND DELIVERED BILINGUALLY AND FOCUSED ON LATINE-LED NEWS ORGANIZATIONS AND CONTENT CREATORS. IT IS DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL INFORMATION ECOSYSTEMS, ADVANCE NONPARTISAN CIVIC EDUCATION, SUPPORT COMMUNITY-SERVING JOURNALISM, AND EMPOWER TRUSTED LATINE-LED ORGANIZATIONS TO COMBAT MISINFORMATION AND FOSTER CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. IN 2025, WE EXPANDED LV4D BY LAUNCHING A SECOND ACCELERATOR COHORT, BRINGING CREATORS AND LOCAL NEWSROOMS TOGETHER AS EQUAL PARTNERS IN INFORMING THE PUBLIC AND ENCOURAGING CIVIC PARTICIPATION. OVER SEVEN MONTHS, PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE TARGETED MENTORSHIP, TRAINING, AND PARTNERSHIP SUPPORT FROM MISSION-ALIGNED TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS TO DEEPEN THEIR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, STORYTELLING, AND AUDIENCE-BUILDING CAPACITY, AS WELL AS CAPITAL, TECHNICAL TOOLS, AND TRAINING ON CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND IMPACT MEASUREMENT TO SUPPORT THEIR LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY. A MAJOR MILESTONE WAS THE LAUNCH OF OUR RESPONSIBLE AI FUNDING CYCLE UNDER THE RISING FUND, UNDERSCORING BOTH THE STRENGTH OF THE APPLICANT POOL AND OUR COMMITMENT TO BACKING HIGH-IMPACT ORGANIZATIONS AT THE INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY, DEMOCRACY, AND SOCIAL GOOD. WE ALSO MADE TARGETED INVESTMENTS IN ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY DURING THE 2025 TAX YEAR, HIRING AND ONBOARDING A DIRECTOR OF FUNDRAISING TO SHARPEN OUR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT, AND TRANSITIONING TO A NEW ACCOUNTING FIRM TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM FINANCIAL STABILITY AND OPERATIONAL RIGOR. THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE CONVENED MULTIPLE FUNDER BRIEFINGS AND IN-PERSON GATHERINGS TO DEEPEN ENGAGEMENT, SHARE LEARNINGS, AND BUILD ALIGNMENT WITH OUR FUNDING PARTNERS. PORTFOLIO SUPPORT REMAINED A CORE PRIORITY, AS WE CONTINUED TO BACK EARLY- STAGE, NONPARTISAN ENTREPRENEURS AND ACTIVISTS TRANSFORMING OUR DEMOCRACY THROUGH INNOVATION. OUR TEAM MET WITH MORE THAN 50 FOUNDERS OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, PROVIDING TAILORED GUIDANCE ON FUNDRAISING, PITCH AND DECK DEVELOPMENT, STRATEGIC POSITIONING, AND ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSITIONS, AND CONNECTING THEM TO MORE THAN 70 FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. THIS WAS ALSO A YEAR OF EXPERIMENTATION FOR OUR PORTFOLIO SUPPORT PROGRAM, INCLUDING A PILOT OF PEER COHORTS FOCUSED ON COMMUNITY-BUILDING, WHERE FOUNDERS EXPLORED TOPICS SUCH AS FINDING PRODUCT-MARKET FIT, NAVIGATING ACQUISITIONS, AND SELECTING THE RIGHT HR TOOLS. WE LAUNCHED THREE NEW ONGOING PEER COHORTS WITH EXISTING PORTFOLIO ORGANIZATIONSBUILDING & SCALING (FOR FOR-PROFIT FOUNDERS), PEOPLE OPERATIONS, AND COMMUNITY SUPPORTTHAT MEET QUARTERLY TO PROVIDE STRUCTURED PEER LEARNING AND STRATEGIC SUPPORT, WITH FOUNDER-DRIVEN AGENDAS AND FACILITATED GUIDANCE WHERE NEEDED. WE CONTINUED TO ENGAGE OUR ANGEL SUPPORTER NETWORK ON A QUARTERLY BASIS THROUGH A REFRESHED OUTREACH STRATEGY, WHILE SPOTLIGHTING AND SHARING UPDATES ON OUR PORTFOLIO ORGANIZATIONS. AS PART OF OUR PROGRAMMATIC WORK, WE ALSO HOSTED A SERIES OF CONVENINGSINCLUDING PARTICIPATION IN LA TECH WEEKWHERE WE CO-HOSTED THE SECOND ANNUAL CHANGEMAKER FILM SHOWCASE WITH THE MICHAEL LATT LEGACY FUND, CELEBRATING UNDERREPRESENTED FILMMAKERS DRIVING SOCIAL CHANGE AND ADVANCING INNOVATIVE MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE AND RESILIENT DEMOCRACY. WE ALSO EXPANDED OUR COMMUNICATIONS AND THOUGHT LEADERSHIP. WE LAUNCHED AN NRV SUBSTACK TO SHARE UPDATES, RESEARCH, AND ECOSYSTEM INSIGHTS, INCLUDING THE LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE RISING FUND AND OUR 2025 RESPONSIBLE AI COHORT, AS WELL AS ANALYTIC PIECES SUCH AS RESPONSIBLE AI INVESTMENT CYCLE 2025: INSIGHTS & EMERGING TRENDS, EVALUATING RESPONSIBLE AI: HOW PURPOSE, PEOPLE, AND PROGRESS DRIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR GOOD, AND BUILDING AI FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD: PRELIMINARY INSIGHTS FROM OUR RESPONSIBLE AI PIPELINE, WHICH TOGETHER SURFACED FUNDING GAPS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR TECHNOLOGY THAT SERVES VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES. WE ADDITIONALLY PUBLISHED AI AS A BATTLEGROUND FOR POWER: BUILDING THE FUTURE OF RESPONSIBLE TECHNOLOGY AND TWO ARTICLES DOCUMENTING OUR LATINE VOICES FOR DEMOCRACY ACCELERATORINSIDE LV4D: KEY INSIGHTS & LEARNINGS FROM THE FIRST US-BASED ACCELERATOR FOR LATINO-LED MEDIA AND A RECAP OF OUR SECOND-COHORT KICK-OFFSHARING LESSONS FROM BILINGUAL, LATINO-LED MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS AND CREATORS WORKING TO STRENGTHEN CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE. THROUGHOUT 2025, THE NRV BOARD PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE IN STRATEGIC PLANNING, FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT, AND ECOSYSTEM CONNECTION-BUILDING, HELPING TO ADVANCE THE MISSION AND LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF NEW RISING VENTURES.

  Expenses $420,411

As filed on the 2025 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

2025

Filed

23 April 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.0

Source object

202621199349302662

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