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SEMBRAMEDIA

EIN 47-5124565 SACRAMENTO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,329,933
Expenses 2024
$1,312,264

Program services were 79.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1200
Street
2108 N STREET 10429

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

EMPOWER MEDIA SUSTAINABILITY TO SUPPORT EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE AND IMPACT.

  • PROJECT OASIS: PROJECT OASIS IS A RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE SUSTAINABILITY, INNOVATION, AND IMPACT OF INDEPENDENT DIGITAL NATIVE NEWS ORGANISATIONS IN MORE THAN 60 COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD. ITS GOAL IS TO BRING GREATER VISIBILITY TO DIGITAL NATIVE MEDIA ORGANISATIONS AND TO UNCOVER NEW INSIGHTS ABOUT THE TRENDS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND CHALLENGES IN THE ECOSYSTEM.

    Expenses $485,428

  • GNI STARTUPS LAB: IT IS AN INDEPENDENT DIGITAL MEDIA ACCELERATOR AND INCUBATION IN SPANISH THAT SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF JOURNALISTIC VENTURES AND PROMOTES THE PERSONAL GROWTH OF ITS MEMBERS. DURING THE PROGRAM, DIGITAL MEDIA OUTLETS AND MEDIA LEADERS CREATE STRATEGIES TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ORGANIZATIONS, EXPAND THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR AUDIENCES, AND INNOVATE IN THEIR TEAM COLLABORATIONS.

    Expenses $168,864 · Grants $60,078

  • OTHER PROGRAMS: SEMBRAMEDIA ALSO MANAGED SEVERAL SMALLER GRANT-FUNDED PROGRAMS TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES TO JOURNALISTS, MEDIA LEADERS, AND ACADEMICS.

    Expenses $137,311 · Grants $10,845 · Revenue $127

  • MVA- MEDIA VIABILITY ACCELERATOR: PROGRAM AIMED TO STRENGTHEN THE SUSTAINABILITY OF INDEPENDENT MEDIA BY PROMOTING DATA-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING, ACCESS TO FINANCING, AND COOPERATION. ITS GOAL WAS TO REINFORCE THE RESILIENCE OF THE MEDIA ECOSYSTEM IN THE FACE OF LARGE PLATFORMS AND DISRUPTIVE CHANGES.

    Expenses $135,081

  • PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR JOURNALISTS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

    Expenses $119,424

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.

  • Teresa Frontado

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Zommer

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Butler

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Breiner

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ismael Nafria

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janine Warner Co-Exec Dir

    UNTIL 5/24, THEN EXEC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $115,000
    From this org
    $115,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mijal Iastrebner

    CO-EXEC DIRECTOR UNTIL 5/24

    Total calculated
    $35,000
    From this org
    $35,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,329,933
    Expenses
    $1,312,264
    Contributions
    $1,312,887
    Grants paid
    $70,923
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,325,144
    Expenses
    $1,531,612
    Contributions
    $1,309,875
    Grants paid
    $287,100
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,983,720
    Expenses
    $1,434,452
    Contributions
    $1,982,746
    Grants paid
    $357,227

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
    $1,162,160
    Expenses
    $758,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $575,706

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $488,664
    Expenses
    $412,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $181,468

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $408,504
    Expenses
    $344,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,717

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $75,692
    Expenses
    $67,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,471

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

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.