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CITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE

EIN 84-3448887 OAKLAND, CA

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Revenue 2025
$6,023,660
Expenses 2025
$4,911,909

Program services were 68.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 70004

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

Cityside Journalism Initiative (Cityside) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization committed to building community through local journalism. Cityside provides readers with fact-driven, nonpartisan, informative reporting that seeks to reflect the diversity and complexity of the communities it serves. Cityside operates three newsrooms, Berkeleyside, The Oaklandside and Richmondside, to provide local journalism in these cities.

  • EDITORIAL - TO PROVIDE READERS WITH FACT-DRIVEN, NONPARTISAN, INFORMATIVE REPORTING THAT SEEKS TO REFLECT THE DIVERSITY AND COMPLEXITY OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. Cityside operates three newsrooms, Berkeleyside, Oaklandside, and Richmondside, to provide local journalism in these cities.

    Expenses $3,344,010 · Revenue $748,772

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Colleen Leary

    VP, CLIENT PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $344,391
    From this org
    $332,243
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,148
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $125,725
    Bonus
    $206,518
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,937
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,211
    Filer's total
    $344,391

  • Tanzeem Paghdiwala

    TREAS, EIC, SO

    Total calculated
    $174,029
    From this org
    $171,262
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,767
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,262
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,707
    Nontaxable benefits
    $60
    Filer's total
    $174,029

  • Erica Kesel

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $174,028
    From this org
    $171,232
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,796
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,232
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,706
    Nontaxable benefits
    $90
    Filer's total
    $174,028

  • Tracey Taylor

    SECY & CHIEF CO

    Total calculated
    $164,820
    From this org
    $151,671
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,149
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,671
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,471
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,678
    Filer's total
    $164,820

  • Lance Knobel

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $158,091
    From this org
    $154,046
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,045
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,046
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,728
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,317
    Filer's total
    $158,091

  • Kari G Hulac

    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

    Total calculated
    $127,556
    From this org
    $116,477
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,079
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sarah Lee

    DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE

    Total calculated
    $125,655
    From this org
    $118,798
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,857
    Hours/week
    40

  • Zachary Farber

    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

    Total calculated
    $122,058
    From this org
    $115,398
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,660
    Hours/week
    40

  • Becki Couch-Alvarado

    DIRECTOR OF EVENTS

    Total calculated
    $118,863
    From this org
    $110,478
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,385
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jacob Simas

    DIR COM JOURNALISM

    Total calculated
    $115,605
    From this org
    $113,446
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,159
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Olson

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sara Rahimian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Evelyn Nussenbaum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martin Reynolds

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Candice Fortman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Ramshaw

    AUDIT CO CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Stutzman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Armstrong

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $6,023,660
    Expenses
    $4,911,909
    Contributions
    $5,206,904
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,805,599
    Expenses
    $4,227,726
    Contributions
    $2,974,914
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,223,869
    Expenses
    $4,197,461
    Contributions
    $3,293,821
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2025 · 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
    $3,671,033
    Expenses
    $3,718,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,452,372

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,624,923
    Expenses
    $1,929,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,576,309

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Lance Knobel
Mailing address
2120 University AvenueBerkeley CA 94704
Website
https://berkeleyside.com

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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

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.