Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$821,246

Total expenses

$801,066

Contributions and grants received

$821,246

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$628,930

Total liabilities, end of year

$17,176

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$611,754

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$612,320

Management and general expenses

$66,575

Fundraising expenses

$122,171

Program service expenses (Part III)

$612,320

Program services were 76.4% 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 · 2023

• IN 2023, PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH PUBLISHED INVESTIGATIVE STORIES THAT PROMPTED LEGISLATION, COMMUNITY ACTION, EDITORIALS AND OTHER POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS. OUR JOURNALISM GARNERED NATIONAL AND REGIONAL AWARDS. AMONG THE HIGHLIGHTS:- AN INVESTIGATIVE SERIES, "TOXIC TEXAS AIR," FOUND THAT STATE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATORS KNEW ABOUT, BUT FAILED TO STOP, HIGH BENZENE EMISSIONS IN THE MAJORITY-LATINO COMMUNITY OF CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS, FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES. A STATE SENATOR PROMISED TO DRAFT LEGISLATION TO HOLD TEXAS REGULATORS ACCOUNTABLE. - A PROJECT ON THE 10 STATES THAT HAVE REFUSED TO EXPAND MEDICAID "THE HOLDOUTS" EXAMINED THE HUMAN COSTS OF FAILING TO WIDEN THE PROGRAM NEARLY A DECADE AFTER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT TOOK EFFECT. WE PARTNERED WITH MEDIA OUTLETS AND A DATA TEAM IN HOLD-OUT STATES ON THE COVERAGE. THE PROJECT UNCOVERED NEW EVIDENCE THAT EXPANSION CAN SAVE LIVES WHETHER IT'S THOSE STRUGGLING WITH DIABETES OR OPIOID ADDICTION.- WORKING WITH TWO RESEARCHERS, PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH ANALYZED THE DEADLY TOLL OF FINE-PARTICLE POLLUTION IN TEXAS AND FOUND THAT 8,405 RESIDENTS HAD DIED FROM EXPOSURE TO PARTICULATES IN 2016. AN INTERACTIVE MAP TRACED THE NUMBER AND RATE OF DEATHS BY COUNTY AND NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE STATE.- A JOINT INVESTIGATION WITH PHW, LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA AND MOUNTAIN STATE SPOTLIGHT EXPOSED SERIOUS GAPS IN A NEW FEDERAL PLAN TO REDUCE MINERS' EXPOSURE TO SILICA DUST, WHICH CAUSES DEADLY BLACK LUNG DISEASE. THE COVERAGE PROMPTED REGULATORS TO TOUGHEN THEIR APPROACH.- AN IN-DEPTH STORY EXAMINED HOW A STRETCH OF SOUTH TEXAS IS WRESTLING WITH A CRISIS THE REST OF THE NATION COULD SOMEDAY FACE: AN INCREASE IN CASES OF ALZHEIMER'S AND OTHER DEMENTIAS, PARTICULARLY AMONG LATINOS.- IN A TWO-PART SERIES, PUBLIC HEALTH WATCH AND THE TEXAS TRIBUNE REPORTED THAT THE EPA AND TEXAS REPEATEDLY DOCUMENTED BUT DID LITTLE TO ADDRESS PROBLEMS AT A HOUSTON-AREA TANK FARM BEFORE A DISASTROUS FIRE STRUCK IN MARCH 2019. THE FIRE RELEASED TOXIC CHEMICALS INTO NEARBY COMMUNITIES FOR WEEKS.- PHW UNCOVERED RECORDS AND DATA TO DEPICT HOW VARIOUS INDUSTRIES ARE FIGHTING TO KEEP THE EPA FROM APPROVING TIGHTER CONTROLS OF MANGANESE IN DRINKING WATER DESPITE RESEARCH THAT SHOWS HIGH LEVELS CAN HARM CHILDREN. OUR NATIONAL MAP TRACED MANGANESE LEVELS IN PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

  Expenses $612,320

As filed on the 2023 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

2023

Filed

22 July 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202402049349301150

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