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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by WHOSE KNOWLEDGE QUESTION MARK.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,982,735
Total expenses
$1,962,761
Contributions and grants received
$2,961,346
Grants paid
$18,378
Program service revenue
$21,389
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$2,072,297
Total liabilities, end of year
$338,824
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,733,473
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,322,467
Management and general expenses
$328,293
Fundraising expenses
$312,001
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,322,467

Program services were 67.4% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,961,346

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Consulting & other

    total $21,389 · related or exempt $21,389

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $18,378 · program services $18,378

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $59,509 · program services $29,755 · management and general $14,877 · fundraising $14,877

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $57,898 · program services $57,898

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $94,857 · program services $3,184 · management and general $76,922 · fundraising $14,751

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $5,135 · management and general $5,135

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $16,888 · management and general $16,888

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $38,250 · fundraising $38,250

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,224,313 · program services $905,205 · management and general $140,711 · fundraising $178,397

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $9,402 · program services $7,512 · management and general $947 · fundraising $943

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $13,848 · program services $8,485 · management and general $3,870 · fundraising $1,493

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $13,185 · program services $3,997 · management and general $7,150 · fundraising $2,038

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $284,576 · program services $172,474 · management and general $53,769 · fundraising $58,333

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $29,677 · program services $20,733 · management and general $6,025 · fundraising $2,919

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Honorariums & awards

    total $82,749 · program services $82,749

  • 24b · Other expenses: Other expense

    total $14,096 · program services $12,097 · management and general $1,999

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $538,873 · end of year $797,588

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $1,250,000

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $1,012,021 · end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $6,993 · end of year $24,709

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,000 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,712 · end of year $338,824

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,559,175 · end of year $33,473

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    end of year $1,700,000

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WK? is a global multilingual campaign to center on the internet - the histories, knowledges, leadership, design, and imaginations of the minoritized majority of the world - minoritized and marginalized by historical and ongoing structures of power and privilege. We practice as a feminist anti-oppressions collective striving towards shared liberations through knowledge justice, led by Black and brown women and trans folks from and in the communities and movements we serve, particularly of the Global South and Global Majority.

  • Honouring Our Guardians- Challenging and transforming mainstream narratives and policies around Indigenous knowledges by convening an international/translocal community of practice of Indigenous women activists, policy-makers, and scholars. Radical Communications- Challenging Big Knowledge and Big Tech norms and center the needs, multiple histories, knowledges, and imaginations of the communities we serve in multimodal, multilingual and accessible ways.Feminist Tech Infrastructures and Governance- Exploring a new area of our work, of just and equitable feminist tech infrastructures and governance through collaborations, convenings and supporting feminists and other progressive communities in internet infrastructure and governance spaces.Radical Ops- Enhancing WK? radical operations, systems, and infrastructure that prioritize holistic sustainability, security, and healing justice; Establish and maintain a comprehensive financial management system and infrastructure for WK?

    Expenses $413,068

  • Liberatory Archives and Media: Decolonizing traditional archives and memory institutions by centering and amplifying liberatory practices and methodologies, and supporting the design, infrastructure, and resilience of radical community archives.

    Expenses $359,359 · Grants $5,878

  • Language Justice: Building more multilingual, multimodal, accessible and people designed internet infrastructures through community-led initiatives, and research-in-action based approaches.

    Expenses $301,990

  • Decolonizing Wikimedia: Creating a just and equitable Wikimedia ecosystem by convening and supporting communities of practice from the Global Majority World, and centering community-led knowledges, methodologies and practices through a knowledge justice lens.

    Expenses $248,050 · Grants $12,500 · Revenue $21,389

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Anasuya Sengupta

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $59,509
    From this org
    $59,509
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Camille Emefa Acey

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Oona Castro

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Helen King-Turvey

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Dumisani Ndubane

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Related partnerships

Part III: related organizations taxable as a partnership, with the filer's share.

  • Whose Knowledge UK Cmmunity Int Company

    Related · See part V · UK

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202513239349300216

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