- Revenue 2024
- $4,489,729
- Expenses 2024
- $4,088,249
Program services were 73.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A33
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 1775 I ST NW STE 1150 PMB 291
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
FORMED WITH A MISSION TO TRAIN UP-AND-COMING REPORTERS AND EDITORS, TO CARRY OUT INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, AND TO PERFORM DEEP POLICY REPORTING WITH A PURPOSE OF CONSUMER AWARENESS AND EDUCATION.
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FELLOWS (AMERICAN JOURNALISM INSTITUTE): OUR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM TRAINS YOUNG REPORTERS AND EDITORS THROUGH A TWO-YEAR ON THE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM.
Expenses $1,873,658
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INVESTIGATIVE GROUP: WE HOST AN EXPERIENCED TEAM OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS WITH A STRONG RECORD OF BREAKING ORIGINAL NEWS STORIES.
Expenses $806,570
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COMMMENTARY: OUR POLICY REPORTING TEAM REPORTS ON NUMEROUS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY MATTERS INCLUDING ENERGY, EDUCATION, ONLINE VIDEO JOURNALISM , AND NATIONAL SECURITY.
Expenses $208,510
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EVENTS: WE HOST AN ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER FOR OUR JOURNALISTS AND SPECIAL GUESTS.
Expenses $116,019
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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Christopher BedfordCHRISTOPHER BEDFORD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
William CervenyWILLIAM CERVENY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $10,000
- From this org
- $10,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
Marcus SterneMARCUS STERNE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $10,000
- From this org
- $10,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
Buckley CarlsonBUCKLEY CARLSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
Neil PatelNEIL PATEL
CHAIRMAN & CO-FOUNDER
- Total calculated
- $160,769
- From this org
- $160,769
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $160,769
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $160,769
-
Adele MalpassADELE MALPASS
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $165,769
- From this org
- $165,769
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,769
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $165,769
-
Michael VoglerMICHAEL VOGLER
SENIOR VP OF DEVELOPMENT
- Total calculated
- $171,385
- From this org
- $171,385
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $171,385
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $171,385
-
Laurie DuganLAURIE DUGAN
CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $165,423
- From this org
- $165,423
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,423
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $165,423
-
Michael BastaschMICHAEL BASTASCH
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
- Total calculated
- $123,385
- From this org
- $113,718
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,667
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Terence JeffreyTERENCE JEFFREY
INVESTIGATIVE EDITOR
- Total calculated
- $108,000
- From this org
- $104,835
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $3,165
- 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
- $4,489,729
- Expenses
- $4,088,249
- Contributions
- $4,512,690
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $3,750,835
- Expenses
- $3,248,587
- Contributions
- $3,839,132
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,175,684
- Expenses
- $2,023,149
- Contributions
- $3,242,939
- 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
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,856,299
- Expenses
- $1,443,662
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,638,364
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,577,490
- Expenses
- $1,770,804
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,238,869
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,514,241
- Expenses
- $2,474,874
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,145,717
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,330,393
- Expenses
- $2,658,664
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,051,239
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,559,847
- Expenses
- $2,505,122
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,334,900
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,142,882
- Expenses
- $2,058,802
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,196,207
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,009,377
- Expenses
- $1,167,196
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,207,506
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $723,578
- Expenses
- $469,432
- Assets (EOY)
- $321,686
-
2013 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $134,570
- Expenses
- $287,154
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,540
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $84,988
- Assets (EOY)
- $159,442
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
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
-
$1,801,000
2024 for general operations
-
$750,000
2022 for general operations
-
$701,500
2023 for general operations
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 MEDIA AND PUBLISHING
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$150,100
2023 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.
-
$122,500
2022 CULTURE & ARTS
-
$75,500
2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.