Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$388,930

Total expenses

$480,930

Contributions and grants received

$388,919

Grants paid

$55,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$11

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$130,388

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,167

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$127,221

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$319,601

Management and general expenses

$121,489

Fundraising expenses

$39,840

Program service expenses (Part III)

$319,601

Program services were 66.5% 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.

Mission and programs · 2022

• THE OUT OF EDEN WALK IS A GLOBAL STORYTELLING INITIATIVE FOR CROSS-CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT AMONG ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS, MEDIA PROFESSIONALS, AND GRASSROOTS COMMUNITIES THAT OFFERS A POWERFUL ALTERNATIVE TO TODAY'S EXPLODING YET SHALLOW COVERAGE OF CURRENT EVENTS, AND PROMOTES PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE CONNECTIVITY VIA THE ETHOS OF "SLOW STORYTELLING."BEGINNING AT THE HERTO BOURI FOSSIL SITE IN AFRICA IN JANUARY 2013, THE PHYSICAL WALK BY PAUL SALOPEK WILL COVER ABOUT 24,000 MILES ON FOOT, FOLLOWING THE HUMAN FOSSIL RECORD AND GEOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPES, UNTIL REACHING THE "FINISH LINE" IN SOUTHERN AMERICA PATAGONIA, TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ANTICIPATED DATE 2027. IN AN AGE OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD, WHEN AN ACCELERATING NEWS CYCLE OFTEN STOKES CONFUSION, POLARIZATION AND DIVISION, THE OUT OF EDEN WALK HARNESSES THE POWER OF HUMANE, IN-DEPTH, SCIENCE-BASED, AND CROSS-CULTURAL REPORTING TO ILLUMINATE, THROUGH ALL TYPES OF MEDIA, THE COMPLEX CHALLENGES THAT UNITE HUMANITY AT THE TURN OF A TROUBLED NEW MILLENNIUM: FROM RISING WAVES OF XENOPHOBIA TO RESOURCE DEPLETION, FROM CULTURAL ENDURANCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, FROM WAR TO HUMAN MASS MIGRATION, FROM TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, AND MUCH MORE. THE OUT OF EDEN WALK PROJECT IS NOT ONE PERSON'S JOURNEY: IT'S A COLLECTIVE PILGRIMAGE, CONDUCTED AT BOOT LEVEL, THAT GATHERS AND BRAIDS A MULTITUDE OF VOICES TOGETHER TO DESCRIBE THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE ACROSS THE GLOBE AT THE START OF THE 21ST CENTURY. OUT OF EDEN WALK HAS PRODUCED 425+ IN-DEPTH ARTICLES ON TOPICS RANGING FROM CLIMATE CHANGE TO MASS MIGRATION, ARCHEOLOGY TO GRASSROOTS TECHNOLOGY, CULTURAL SURVIVAL TO ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES. ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY DIGITAL, OUT OF EDEN WALK HAS PUBLISHED MORE THAN 450,000 WORDS, 2,000 PHOTOS AND 500 VIDEOS, WITH TEXTS TRANSLATED INTO 34 LANGUAGES, WITH AN ARCHIVE OF 90,000 UNPUBLISHED IMAGES. ADDITIONAL EDITORIAL OUTPUTS INCLUDE:A. 11 MAJOR FEATURE ARTICLES FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, INCLUDING THREE COVER STORIES, IN AN ONGOING SERIES.B. 100+ MAJOR INTERNATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS COVERING THE WALK, INCLUDING THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, PBS NEWSHOUR, NPR, CNN, BBC, CBC, VICE AND GQ.C. 200,000+ FOLLOWERS WHO ACCESS THE WALK'S STORYTELLING VIA SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.OUT OF EDEN WALK'S "SLOW STORYTELLING" METHODOLOGY AND PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE EDUCATION PROGRAMMING IMPACTS A VAST AUDIENCE: HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS ARE EXPERIENCING OUT OF EDEN WALK LEARNING RESOURCES THROUGH OUR NETWORK OF BLUE-CHIP PARTNER INSTITUTIONS.OUT OF EDEN WALK'S HOMESTORIES PROGRAM OFFERS A CRITICAL SKILL-BUILDING RESOURCE FOR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY-BUILDING THROUGH MAP-BASED STORYTELLING. HOMESTORIES IS NOW GLOBAL, REPRESENTING EVERY CONTINENT ON THE FREE, PUBLIC-FACING, AND CROWD-SOURCED STORYTELLING PLATFORM: WWW.HOMESTORYPROJECT.ORG. STUDENTS AND MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, OF ALL AGES, FROM ANYWHERE ON EARTH, CAN ACCESS AND JOIN THIS HISTORIC JOURNEY. OUT OF EDEN WALK IS HALFWAY THROUGH AN UNPRECEDENTED, COLLABORATIVE WALK ACROSS CHINA, WHICH BEGAN IN FALL 2021. PARTNERSHIPS WITH NGM-CHINA AND DISNEY-CHINA, AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING NYU SHANGHAI, ENGAGED A GLOBAL AUDIENCE THROUGH WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES, BOTH IN CHINA AND IN THE UNITED STATES, FROM TEACHING WORKSHOPS AT CHINA'S FORESTRY DEPARTMENT TO LAUNCHING A PROTOTYPICAL OUT OF EDEN WALK MUSEUM EXHIBITION AT THE INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS AT NYU-SHANGHAI THAT HAS ALREADY WELCOMED OVER ONE THOUSAND IN-PERSON VISITORS.OUT OF EDEN WALK IS GROWING A NEW GENERATION OF MULTICULTURAL STORYTELLERS WHO, BY SLOWING DOWN THEIR METHODOLOGY, AND TAKING THE TIME TO BURROW BENEATH THE DAY'S SUPERFICIAL HEADLINES, RECORD AND SHARE MORE NUANCED STORIES THAT REVEAL DEEPER TRUTHS ABOUT THE HIDDEN CONNECTIONS AMONG OUR LIVES, THUS ERODING BIGOTRY FUELED BY MISINFORMATION, AND CATALYZING RESPONSIBLE CHANGE AND ACCOUNTABLE BEHAVIORS IN A RAPIDLY GLOBALIZING WORLD.

  Expenses $319,601 · Grants $55,000

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.

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

• NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

  $45,000

  EXHIBITION AT ICA IN SHANGHAI

• PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING

  $10,000

  GRANT ON CRISIS REPORTING

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

30 October 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202343069349301499

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