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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by LOOKOUT PUBLICATIONS NFP.

Totals

Total revenue
$545,275
Total expenses
$420,171
Contributions and grants received
$522,277
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$20,236
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$2,762
Total assets, end of year
$211,611
Total liabilities, end of year
$8,165
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$203,446
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$103,787
Management and general expenses
$316,384
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$103,787

Program services were 24.7% 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

    $522,277

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $20,236 · related or exempt $20,236

  • 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

  • 11a · Other revenue: EVENT TICKETS

    total $2,162 · related or exempt $2,162

  • 11b · Other revenue: REFERRAL FEE

    total $600 · related or exempt $600

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $2,762

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 $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $187,016 · management and general $187,016

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $14,580 · management and general $14,580

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $14,973 · management and general $14,973

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $220 · management and general $220

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,290 · management and general $5,290

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $42,231 · program services $21,090 · management and general $21,141

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $5,912 · program services $10 · management and general $5,902

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $587 · management and general $587

  • 17 · Travel

    total $23,218 · program services $23,041 · management and general $177

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $418 · management and general $418

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $4,916 · management and general $4,916

  • 24a · Other expenses: CONTRACT LABOR

    total $71,818 · program services $34,990 · management and general $36,828

  • 24b · Other expenses: Printing and Publications

    total $22,639 · program services $21,171 · management and general $1,468

  • 24c · Other expenses: COMPUTER/SOFTWARE

    total $9,173 · program services $2,210 · management and general $6,963

  • 24d · Other expenses: DUES & SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $3,568 · management and general $3,568

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $13,612 · program services $1,275 · management and general $12,337

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $81,819 · end of year $211,610

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    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

    end of year $0

  • 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

    end of year $1

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $3,476 · end of year $8,165

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $1

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $78,342 · end of year $203,446

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LOOKOUT delivers fearless journalism and community events with the unified purpose to improve and expand LGBTQ+ representation on the local news stage, while strengthening and engaging LGBTQ+ communities and their allies in the queer experience. Our vision is to inspire and hasten a queer experience thats liberated from injustice and delivers on the promise of equal respect, rights, and opportunity for all people while holding those in power to journalistic account. We bring together communities by activating them, and making sure that queer news isto use newspaper terminologyabove the fold. What does that mean? It means you can expect to see our work in local papers and national news websites, working side-by-side with other reporters at different outlets to make sure you get premiere LGBTQ+ news wherever you trust it most.

  • LOOKOUT delivers fearless journalism and community events with the unified purpose to improve and expand LGBTQ+ representation on the local news stage, while strengthening and engaging LGBTQ+ communities and their allies in the queer experience. Our vision is to inspire and hasten a queer experience thats liberated from injustice and delivers on the promise of equal respect, rights, and opportunity for all people while holding those in power to journalistic account. We bring together communities by activating them, and making sure that queer news isto use newspaper terminologyabove the fold. What does that mean? It means you can expect to see our work in local papers and national news websites, working side-by-side with other reporters at different outlets to make sure you get premiere LGBTQ+ news wherever you trust it most.

    Expenses $103,787

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jacob J Hylton

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $93,508
    From this org
    $93,508
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Joseph Jaafari

    Director

    Total calculated
    $93,508
    From this org
    $93,508
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Meg Taylor

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Keith Hilzendeger

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Glenn Wike

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gaelle Esposito

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jenny Guzman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Pita Juarez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
25 February 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202510569349301341

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