- Revenue 2024
- $13,637,882
- Expenses 2024
- $5,023,112
Program services were 96.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- I80
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 8 THE GREEN STE A
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).
Other organizations at this address
More than 50 organizations in the IRS Business Master File share this street address, so they are not listed here. matched by us
This address is a suite or unit (STE A). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.
We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY SUPPORTING SECTION 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS AND PUBLIC INTEREST NEWS AND REPORTING ORGANIZATIONS THAT EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND OPERATE IN A NONCOMMERCIAL MANNER, BY SUBSIDIZING FOR THE COSTS OF DEFENSE AGAINST LIBEL AND SLANDER LAWSUITS AND PROVIDING THEM WITH LEGAL RESOURCES INCLUDING PRE-PUBLICATION LEGAL RISK ASSESSMENTS, TO REDUCE THE RISK AND IMPACT OF SLAPP THREATS AND LAWSUITS AND ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE NON-PARTISAN, PUBLIC INTEREST JOURNALISM FREELY AND INDEPENDENTLY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
SEE PART III, LINE 1.
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REPORTERS SHIELD, AN INDEPENDENT MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM THAT DEFENDS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AROUND THE WORLD FROM LEGAL THREATS MEANT TO SILENCE CRITICAL VOICES.
Expenses $4,839,678 · Grants $4,290,893 · Revenue $61,112
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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Andrew SullivanANDREW SULLIVAN
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $160,367
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $160,367
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $160,367 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $0 + $160,367 related
-
Oliver RiversOLIVER RIVERS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $135,985
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $135,985
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 40 related
-
Chad MiltonCHAD MILTON
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Paul RaduPAUL RADU
BOARD TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $155,770
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $155,770
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $155,770 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $0 + $155,770 related
-
Robert CusumanoROBERT CUSUMANO
BOARD TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Clothilde RedfernCLOTHILDE REDFERN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (SEE SCHED O)
- Total calculated
- $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. 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
- $13,637,882
- Expenses
- $5,023,112
- Contributions
- $13,516,939
- Grants paid
- $4,290,893
-
2023
- Revenue
- $5,793,406
- Expenses
- $3,909,436
- Contributions
- $5,792,886
- Grants paid
- $3,800,000
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.
Grants made
-
IJD VERMONT I LLC
$4,002,893
2024 PROGRAM AWARD
-
IJD VERMONT I LLC
$3,656,000
2023 PROGRAM AWARD
-
2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT RELATED TO REPORTERS SHIELD
-
2023 PROGRAM SUPPORT RELATED TO REPORTERS SHIELD
Grants received
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JOURNALISM DEVELOMENT NETWORK INC
$5,180,000
2024 TO ASSIST INVESTIGATIVE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS IN DEFENCE AGAINST LIBAL AND DEFAMATION LAWSUITS
-
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
$4,500,000
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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.
Declared on its 2024 return
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JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC
501(C)(3) · CROSS-BORDER REPORTING ON ORGANIZED CRIME · DC
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ASOCIATIEI JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
N/A · OPERATES OCCRP AND PROMOTES CROSS - BORDER REPORTING · RO
-
STICHTING ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION REPORTING PROJECT
N/A · OPERATES OCCRP AND PROMOTES CROSS - BORDER REPORTING · NL
-
CHUNGUZA 54
N/A · OPERATES OCCRP AND PROMOTES CROSS - BORDER REPORTING · SF
-
501(C)(3) · OPERATES OCCRP AND PROMOTES CROSS - BORDER REPORTING · DE
Declared as related by
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JOURNALISM DEVELOMENT NETWORK INC
On its 2024 return as a controlled entity
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.
Disregarded entities on its 2024 return
-
IJD VERMONT II LLC
PROFESSIONAL LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY · VT · income $0 · assets $0
Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return
-
IJD VERMONT I LLC
C · INSURANCE · VT · 100% owned · share of income -$31,628 · share of assets $4,795,080 · controlled entity
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 11 November 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.