- Revenue 2024
- $1,106,000
- Expenses 2024
- $1,184,322
Program services were 77.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A33
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 611 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE NO 143
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
LOST DEBATE AIMS TO BE THE FIRST MEDIA ORGANIZATION TO OFFER NON-PARTISAN AND OBJECTIVE NEWS AND COMMENTARY THAT IS ENTERTAINING AND EDUCATIONAL.
Activities or mission (Part I)
SEE SCHEDULE O
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IN 2024, OUR PODCAST EPISODES WERE LISTENED TO OVER 1M TIMES, OUR NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS GREW BY 21%, OUR YOUTUBE VIEWERSHIP INCREASED BY 35%, AND OUR SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT INCREASED BY 12%.
Expenses $923,039
As filed on the 2024 return.
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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Ravi GuptaRAVI GUPTA
CEO
- Total calculated
- $196,294
- From this org
- $170,833
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $25,461
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $170,833
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $8,542
- Nontaxable benefits
- $16,919
- Filer's total
- $196,294
-
Coss MarteCOSS MARTE
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Stacey Shells HarveySTACEY SHELLS HARVEY
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Shomik Dutta - Left 13125SHOMIK DUTTA - LEFT 13125
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Sujeet Rao - Joined 32024SUJEET RAO - JOINED 32024
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Katherine MalekoffKATHERINE MALEKOFF
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $144,353
- From this org
- $130,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $13,853
- 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
- $1,106,000
- Expenses
- $1,184,322
- Contributions
- $1,106,000
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,430,148
- Expenses
- $2,513,506
- Contributions
- $1,430,148
- Grants paid
- $12,819
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,502,215
- Expenses
- $3,851,069
- Contributions
- $3,502,215
- 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
- $3,500,000
- Expenses
- $1,318,354
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,200,126
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
-
$12,819
2023 Contribution
Grants received
-
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$1,000,000
2022 Arts & Culture
-
$375,000
2023 TO BUILD A PLATFORM THAT HOSTS IMPORTANT, NUANCED CONVERSATIONS ABOUT EDUCATION
-
$200,000
2024 TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PODCAST SERIES ON THE HISTORY, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
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$100,000
2024 TO BUILD A PLATFORM THAT HOSTS IMPORTANT, NUANCED CONVERSATIONS ABOUT EDUCATION
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.