RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

X11

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 1808

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 · 2024

• EDITORIAL: RNS EDITORIAL TEAM PROVIDES ORIGINAL REPORTING AND COMMENTARY ON RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH. JOURNALISTS COVER BREAKING NEWS, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS, PROFILES, FEATURES AND EXPLAINERS THAT FURTHER THE UNDERSTANDING OF WORLD'S RELIGIONS. DISTRIBUTION INCLUDES THE WEBSITE, E-NEWSLETTERS, PODCASTS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE EVENTS.

  Expenses $3,335,512 · Grants $16,000 · Revenue $183,022

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $9,440,759

  Expenses

  $4,473,937

  Contributions

  $9,029,426

  Grants paid

  $16,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,363,996

  Expenses

  $3,723,335

  Contributions

  $850,598

  Grants paid

  $17,797

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,642,797

  Expenses

  $3,022,930

  Contributions

  $6,260,479

  Grants paid

  $20,500

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,640,609

  Expenses

  $2,888,581

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,784,139

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,743,885

  Expenses

  $3,518,588

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,281,750

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,614,862

  Expenses

  $4,866,186

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,980,651

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,985,764

  Expenses

  $2,949,023

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,200,250

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $453,549

  Expenses

  $2,053,819

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,003,479

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

• NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC

  $70,743

  2024 · TO SUPPORT SPECIALIZED NEWSROOM BEAT REPORTING AND MULTIPLATFORM JOURNALISTIC COVERAGE

• INTERFAITH AMERICA

  $50,000

  2023 · IA/RNS JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP

• INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS

  $41,245

  2024 · INN SUPPORT - LABS & COLUMBIA COLLA

• INTERFAITH AMERICA

  $25,000

  2022 · IA/RNS JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP

• INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS

  $18,000

  2023 · INN SUPPORT - WALTON COLLAB & INTER

• INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS

  $14,579

  2022 · INN DIRECT SUPPORT - 2022 COLUMBIA INTERNSHIP GRANT

• SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC

  $10,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE TRAINING AND PRODUCTION OF SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM

• PEW RESEARCH CENTER

  $10,000

  2024 · Sponsorship

• THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC

  $9,525

  2025 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

  $5,000

  2024 · UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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