- Revenue 2024
- $3,634,804
- Expenses 2024
- $4,831,183
Program services were 79.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- U40
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 177 HUNTINGTON AVENUE 83158 1703
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
WE BELIEVE CIVIC LIFE CAN BE REVITALIZED WHEN WE HOLD SPACE FOR CONVERSATION, RECOGNIZING THAT TRADITIONALLY UNDERHEARD VOICES AND MARGINAL EXPERIENCES CAN YIELD IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATION ACROSS BOUNDARIES. SEE SCHEDULE O.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO FOSTER CONSTRUCTIVE PUBLIC CONVERSATION TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ONE ANOTHER.
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IN 2024 CORTICO CONTINUED TO EXPAND THE LOCAL VOICES NETWORK, A UNIQUE, PHYSICAL-DIGITAL NETWORK TO BRING UNDER-HEARD COMMUNITY VOICES, PERSPECTIVES, AND STORIES INTO THE CENTER OF A HEALTHIER PUBLIC SPHERE.LVN BRINGS TOGETHER SMALL GROUPS OF 4-8 PEOPLE TOGETHER FOR FACILITATEDCONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT MATTERS MOST TO THEM IN THEIR COMMUNITIES ANDIN THE NATION.CONVERSATIONS MIGHT FOCUS BROADLY ON HOPES AND CONCERNS, OR BE MORETOPICALLY FOCUSED; BUT, THE COMMON QUALITIES ARE SURFACING THE VALUESDRIVING INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION, SHARING PERSONAL EXPERIENCES THATINFORM THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND ENGAGING INMEANING-MAKING THROUGH REFLECTION ON PERSPECTIVES OF OTHERS BOTH WITHIN
Expenses $3,816,632 · Revenue $296,161
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.
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Deb RobyDEB ROBY
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Eugene YiEUGENE YI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Kathy KramerKATHY KRAMER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Yat SiuYAT SIU
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Juan EnriquezJUAN ENRIQUEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Russell StevensRUSSELL STEVENS
TREASURER & CO-FOUNDER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Alex Kelly BermanALEX KELLY BERMAN
VP OF PARTNERSHIPS & PROGR
- Total calculated
- $155,699
- From this org
- $155,699
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $155,699
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $155,699
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Brooke Eskilson-PattersonBROOKE ESKILSON-PATTERSON
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT
- Total calculated
- $144,610
- From this org
- $144,610
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Akiva LeffertAKIVA LEFFERT
VP OF ENGINEERING
- Total calculated
- $191,141
- From this org
- $191,141
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $191,141
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $191,141
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
- $3,634,804
- Expenses
- $4,831,183
- Contributions
- $2,958,486
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,494,401
- Expenses
- $4,401,257
- Contributions
- $1,696,925
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,494,401
- Expenses
- $4,323,183
- Contributions
- $1,696,925
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,375,561
- Expenses
- $2,220,101
- Contributions
- $3,000,486
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $987,674
- Expenses
- $1,768,075
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,352,303
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $521,424
- Expenses
- $1,812,069
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,449,846
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,453,098
- Expenses
- $2,214,024
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,436,117
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,453,098
- Expenses
- $2,364,146
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,285,995
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,713,953
- Expenses
- $1,342,053
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,217,030
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,323,238
- Expenses
- $508,287
- Assets (EOY)
- $813,868
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $235,027
- Expenses
- $5,337
- Assets (EOY)
- $229,889
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $27
- Expenses
- $5,337
- Assets (EOY)
- $229,889
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
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$7,325,581
2022 SUPPORT CORTICO'S DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS TO ADVANCE, ACCELERATE, AND INTEGRATE THE REALTALK SYSTEM - A SOCIAL NETWORK DESIGNED FOR AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE, DEEP LISTENING AND CONNECTION - AND ITS TRANSITION TO THE PROJECT LIBERTY DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK PROTOCOL (DSNP).
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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
$1,000,000
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$200,000
2022 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$75,000
2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$50,000
2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
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2022 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.