Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by CENTRAL VALLEY JOURNALISM COLLABORATIVE.
This return was superseded by a later amendment.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 2023 , filed 13 May 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.
Listed under a different title
- Priscilla Enriquez: Interim Ex Dir then Chairwoman
- Susan McClatchy: President then Director
Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,708,361
- Total expenses
- $1,819,772
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,675,000
- Grants paid
- $266,500
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $33,044
- Other revenue
- $317
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,537,155
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $169,475
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,367,680
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,546,104
- Management and general expenses
- $273,668
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,546,104
Program services were 85.0% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$1,675,000
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3 · Investment income
total $33,044 · excluded $33,044
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Miscellaneous Subscriptions
total $317 · related or exempt $317
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11e · Other revenue, total
$317
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $266,500 · program services $266,500
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $82,313 · program services $72,848 · management and general $9,465
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $621,534 · program services $543,018 · management and general $78,516
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $4,679 · program services $4,679
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $76,514 · program services $68,832 · management and general $7,682
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $60,141 · program services $50,156 · management and general $9,985
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $56,289 · program services $11,258 · management and general $45,031
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $62,688 · management and general $62,688
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $417,022 · program services $374,256 · management and general $42,766
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $5,666 · program services $5,099 · management and general $567
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13 · Office expenses
total $7,975 · program services $6,380 · management and general $1,595
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14 · Information technology
total $58,234 · program services $52,411 · management and general $5,823
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $12,716 · program services $11,444 · management and general $1,272
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17 · Travel
total $45,094 · program services $40,585 · management and general $4,509
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $5,093 · program services $4,838 · management and general $255
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $13,998 · program services $12,598 · management and general $1,400
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24a · Other expenses: Reference Materials/Services
total $14,561 · program services $13,105 · management and general $1,456
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24b · Other expenses: Miscellaneous Expense
total $8,439 · program services $7,993 · management and general $446
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24c · Other expenses: Filing Fees
total $200 · management and general $200
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24d · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping
total $116 · program services $104 · management and general $12
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24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $448,952 · end of year $159,977
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $1,033,210 · end of year $1,119,254
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $170,000
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $6,872
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $1 · end of year $81,052
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $3,072 · end of year $95,923
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $1,299,091
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25 · Other liabilities
end of year $73,552
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $180,000 · end of year $180,000
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
end of year $1,187,680
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
Our mission statement is: We grow local news for and from the Valley to help you live a healthy and informed life. We connect Central Valley communities with the support needed to grow and sustain local journalism.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Central Valley Journalism Collaborative (CVJC) reimagines a new model for protectingthe local free press by addressing a new economic and community engagement approachby diversifying journalistic funding and philanthropic engagement. This approachcenters local stakeholders and is symbiotic with local journalisms roots in publicservice. The future of the free press is essential to the future of the CentralValley, a diverse home to over 7.5 million people across nearly 20,000 square milesspeaking 105 languages. CVJC proposes a preventative infrastructure to ensure theprotection of local communities by developing solutions for obstacles pertaining toownership, operating capacity, and resources.
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The Central Valley Journalism Collaborative aims to grow, protect and sustain locally produced news in the Central Valley. We do this by funding journalist positions and by producing local, essential, fact-based news stories and distributing these to our newsroom partners in the region. To augment the availability of relevant and accessible local news, we launched our first bilingual newsroom, the Merced FOCUS/EL ENFOQUE Merced. CVJC will continue to advance its goals to grow newsroom jobs and coverage capacity; increase diversityof leadership and reporting workforce to reflect the community; engage the next generation of consumers and stakeholders; support local journalism ecosysteminnovation; and expand philanthropic investment in the Central Valley.
Expenses $1,546,104 · Grants $1,675,000
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Alma Martinez
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $82,313
- From this org
- $82,313
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 80
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Susan McClatchy
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Priscilla Enriquez
Interim Ex Dir
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
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Eric Prock
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Marian Kaanon
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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$191,500
Funding of Journalist
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$75,000
Funding a Journalist Position
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 18 January 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202510189349300116
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