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GISA INC

EIN 61-1861903 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,267,610
Expenses 2024
$2,475,570

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q20
Classification
1000
Street
445 E 77TH ST APT 1R

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

Mission

GISA IS A GLOBAL NON PROFIT ORGANIZAITON DEDICATED TO BUILDING THE FUTURE OF MEDIA WITH INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS, ARTISTS AND ENTREPRENEURS WORKING IN CLOSED SOCIETIES THROUGH PRODUCTION, OPEN SOURCE INNOVATION, RESEARCH, LEARNING AND COMMUNICATION BUILDING.

  • Civic Engagement and Culture: Objective: To provide opportunities for revolutionary youth to shape the future of Sudan and continue the spirit of the revolution that brought change for everyone In 2022, Gisa Group provided project management and design support to the Civic labs network, as well as fundraising and facilitation of this with donors, to help them build more resilient communities that can keep their government accountable and advocate for their rights and needs.

    Expenses $1,338,485

  • Media Development: Objective: To guarantee access for Sudanese to important information and journalism in order to hold the powerful to account. The media development program at Gisa is dedicated to empowering individuals and communities in Sudan and East Africa through the transformative power of media. Our program aims to foster independent journalism, promote freedom of expression, and enhance media literacy in the region. Through a variety of partnerships, Gisa has provided training, resources, and support to local journalists, citizen reporters, and civil society organizations. In addition to capacity building efforts, Gisa is home to Ayin Network, which is Sudan's premiere visual and investigative journalism outlet. Starting in 2013 Ayin has covered Sudan's trials and tribulations, with a focus on being the leading primary source of the conditions that have faced the Sudanese peoples. Recognizing the importance of community engagement in shaping narratives and promoting social change, our program encourages citizen participation by covering community initiatives and responses, as well as grassroots social and cultural initiatives. We strive to amplify marginalized voices and ensure diverse perspectives are represented in the media landscape.In 2022, Ayin started to work more collaboratively with Gisas Sudanese Archive project and Sudan Protest Monitor on reports and investigations, cross-publishing and cross team trainings on reporting and content development. For example, Ayin published a collaborative report with the Sudan Protest Monitor. The report takes an in-depth look at the protest movement outside the capital area, focusing on protests that took place since the coup in three strategic towns - Damazin, Gedaref, and El Geneina located in the south, east, and west sides of the country, respectively. The report uses the data collected by Sudan Protest Monitor and analyzes this content to reveal trends in the levels and nature of the pro-democracy protests taking place in these three areas, including factors that have affected participation levels. The report includes maps, images and graphs to outline these findings. Training on digital literacy: Led by our external partner Rift Digital Lab, and closely supported by our Ayin team, a digital literacy module was developed and added to the digital rights and security curriculum developed by the same teams in 2021. We held a ToT training on the full curriculum for 11 (8 male, 3 female) tech coordinators from 10 Civic Labs across ten states or cities in Sudan: Kassala (1), Port Sudan (1), Al Gadarif (1), Al Damazin (1), Al Daen (1), Al Fasher (1), Al Dilinj (1), Khartoum (2), Bahri (1) and Omdurman (1). 8 of the ToTs went on to train a total of 93 people from Civic Lab communities around Sudan - Bahri (had 11 participants 1 female), Al Damazin (13 participants), Kassala (had 16 participants 7 were females), Al-Rusairis (had 15 participants 9 were females), Alfashir (12 participants 8 were females), Port Sudan (6 participant all males) and Al Daen (20 participants in the two workshops 8 were females). Sudan Protest Monitor was launched, the aim of which was to map all large-scale protests in Sudan and violence against civilians using open-source data and a field network. This data will be used by civil society in Sudan for media and advocacy work, as well as international media and actors to better understand the context and the movement.

    Expenses $635,818

  • Collaborative Futures: Objective: To incubate new ideas, and build tools and technology to support Gisa Group and our partners around the world. In 2022, the SHOUT APP was completed and tested in different countries between September and October. SHOUT is a simple mobile phone application that can transfer data files using voice telephony during a shutdown. The 1st version of APP is operational but privately available. We are redesigning the APP and making a completely different version of the APP. Via our Al Kashif project, we provide pro-democracy groups with access to resources so they can preempt and fight back against disinformation targeting the pro-democracy movement in Sudan. The team finalized an online course to train Civil Society Organizations to counter disinformation and uploaded it to the newly developed learning management system. The link to the LMS is here: https://alkashif.net/lms/login/index.php. The team also finalized an online collaborative space, named the Al-Kashif community (https://community.alkashif.net/login/), and is designed to facilitate collaboration and network-building activities among CSOs and other members of civil society. Initiated development of a pilot of a WhatsApp Bot that can be used to archive important documentation with the Sudanese Archive, while also receiving tip sheets, and informative material related to documentation, human rights, and dis-information.

    Expenses $128,183

  • Access to Justice: Objective: To build sustainable platforms and projects that support Sudans emerging civil society achieve justice for human right and other issues. Sudanese Archive continued open source data monitoring and collecting and published 2 investigations on Violence in Khartoum on January 17, 2022 anti-coup protest and Patterns of violence against protesters in the year since Sudan's coup. Human Rights Hub worked in collaboration with 2 key partners (PEJ and Climate Counsel) to provide capacity building support in the form of e-learning material developed and added to our ATJ e-learning academy, roundtables and mentorship, for 4 Sudanese human rights defender groups. Key focus was on strengthening the capacity for Human Rights Documentation in general, transitional justice, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, best practices for legal documentation of human rights violations and human violations affecting the environment. In the last quarter of 2022, the team coordinated a trip to Europe for 4 Sudanese human rights defender groups to engage with international institutions and actors working on human rights issues in Sudan. This laid the groundwork for future advocacy and accountability collaboration that can leverage documentation collected on the ground. The groups were able to meet with 9 international stakeholders and this was the first time most of the international stakeholders had the opportunity to meet local groups directly, especially those from the peripheries.ocacy communication.

    Expenses $126,281

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

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.

  • TREVOR SNAPP

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $55,000
    From this org
    $55,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • OLIVIA BUENO

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5

  • RYAN BOYETTE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SULIMAN BALDO

    Secretary

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,267,610
    Expenses
    $2,475,570
    Contributions
    $2,005,787
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,515,477
    Expenses
    $1,212,470
    Contributions
    $1,441,510
    Grants paid
    $161,783
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,149,478
    Expenses
    $1,196,769
    Contributions
    $1,070,524
    Grants paid
    $128,579

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
    $1,335,374
    Expenses
    $1,040,727
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,006,703

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,057,988
    Expenses
    $898,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $389,442

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $380,280
    Expenses
    $585,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $199,204

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $498,195
    Expenses
    $415,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,666

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $110,325
    Expenses
    $32,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $84,175

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.

Grants made

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Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.