INSTITUTES FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES

EIN 52-2073018 MADISON, WI

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Revenue 2025: $475,615
Expenses 2025: $656,783

Program services were 73.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A99
Classification: 1000
Street: 2453 ATWOOD AVE STE 202

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION PURSUES HIGHER STANDARDS OF NEWS COVERAGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- STANDARDS OF ACCURACY, FAIRNESS, BALANCE, DEPTH AND CONTEXT.

Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

Expenses $481,800 · Grants $29,360

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Karen ScanlonKAREN SCANLON

CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.5
Danielle K BrownDANIELLE K BROWN

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.75
Nadia WhiteNADIA WHITE

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Barbara DwyerBARBARA DWYER

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Donzell BrownDONZELL BROWN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
John FlesherJOHN FLESHER

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Savi HorneSAVI HORNE

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.25
David RocklandDAVID ROCKLAND

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.5
Mark TrahantMARK TRAHANT

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Chris SalisburyCHRIS SALISBURY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
David SprattDAVID SPRATT

CEO

Total calculated

$151,989

From this org

$136,513

From related orgs

$0

Other

$15,476

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$136,513

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$0

Nontaxable benefits

$15,476

Filer's total

$151,989

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$475,615

Expenses

$656,783

Contributions

$445,247

Grants paid

$29,360
2024

Revenue

$767,481

Expenses

$698,807

Contributions

$723,489

Grants paid

$118,271
2023

Revenue

$786,014

Expenses

$514,269

Contributions

$782,288

Grants paid

$9,005
2022

Revenue

$965,038

Expenses

$590,235

Contributions

$964,987

Grants paid

$98,800

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$475,615	$656,783	$445,247	$29,360
2024	$767,481	$698,807	$723,489	$118,271
2023	$786,014	$514,269	$782,288	$9,005
2022	$965,038	$590,235	$964,987	$98,800

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$748,939

Expenses

$440,787

Assets (EOY)

$615,388
2020 · 990

Revenue

$377,571

Expenses

$666,594

Assets (EOY)

$303,500
2019 · 990

Revenue

$796,028

Expenses

$589,186

Assets (EOY)

$593,059
2018 · 990

Revenue

$314,527

Expenses

$567,489

Assets (EOY)

$397,589
2017 · 990

Revenue

$848,696

Expenses

$430,863

Assets (EOY)

$629,938
2016 · 990

Revenue

$247,161

Expenses

$264,336

Assets (EOY)

$204,599
2015 · 990

Revenue

$435,663

Expenses

$327,436

Assets (EOY)

$219,651
2014 · 990

Revenue

$116,122

Expenses

$251,158

Assets (EOY)

$118,925
2013 · 990

Revenue

$258,810

Expenses

$322,861

Assets (EOY)

$256,288
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$208,171

Assets (EOY)

$302,601

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$748,939	$440,787	$615,388
2020	990	$377,571	$666,594	$303,500
2019	990	$796,028	$589,186	$593,059
2018	990	$314,527	$567,489	$397,589
2017	990	$848,696	$430,863	$629,938
2016	990	$247,161	$264,336	$204,599
2015	990	$435,663	$327,436	$219,651
2014	990	$116,122	$251,158	$118,925
2013	990	$258,810	$322,861	$256,288
2012	990	not reported	$208,171	$302,601

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

$185,000

2024 LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS

$180,000

2024 COVERAGE PROJECT
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS

$82,000

2023 COVERAGE PROJECT
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS

$50,000

2022 COVERAGE PROJECT
RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

$40,000

2023 LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRON. EQUITY AND JUSTICE.
WILDERNESS SOCIETY

$20,000

2022 CONSERVATION PROJECTS
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC

$10,000

2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.