ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A30

Classification

2300

Street

367 ST MARKS PLACE 65

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Mission and programs · 2025

• Journalism Grants, Editorial Support & Co Publishing (Primary Program) In 2025, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) advanced its mission to support journalists with lived experience of economic hardship by providing $72,032 in direct grants to 42 independent reporters, along with editorial guidance, mentorship, and publication support. EHRP also partnered with Magnum Photography to support an additional 510 visual journalists, expanding the organizations reach into documentary photography and visual storytelling. Together, these contributors produced more than 50 published pieces across a wide range of genresincluding investigations, features, first person essays, photo essays, illustrations, poetry, and multimedia reporting.EHRPs work appeared in major national and international outlets such as The New York Times, TIME, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Nation, Rolling Stone, NPR, The Intercept, Esquire, and dozens more. These stories centered the experiences of working class Americans and illuminated the structural forces shaping inequality, housing instability, labor conditions, climate impacts, disability rights, and the rising cost of living. Collectively, EHRP supported journalism reached approximately 3 million people in 2025.EHRPs editorial model emphasizes culture jammingplacing stories about poverty, labor, and inequality in outlets that do not typically cover these issues. This strategy ensures that narratives about economic hardship reach unexpected audiences and disrupt conventional media framing. In 2025, EHRP continued to expand its presence in youth oriented and mainstream lifestyle publications, helping shift public understanding of economic precarity and working class life.Fellowships & Emerging Media Storytelling (NextGen Program) In response to rapidly changing media consumption habitsparticularly the rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube as primary news sourcesEHRP expanded its investment in emerging media through its fellowship programs. In 2025, EHRP provided $30,200 in fellowship payments to seven fellows, including two NextGen Fellows supported by The Puffin Foundation. These fellows produced high impact short form videos and social media native reporting that translated complex economic issues into accessible, engaging content for younger audiences.NextGen Fellow Caitlyn Clark, a union communications worker and content creator with more than 132,000 TikTok followers, produced a series of videos contextualizing EHRP supported reporting with historical and policy analysis. Her work addressed topics such as labor rights, corporate power, the decline of local news, the use of stress as a management tactic, and the role of neoliberalism in shaping economic life. Her videos generated thousands of comments and shares, demonstrating strong resonance with younger viewers seeking clear, trustworthy explanations of economic issues.EHRPs second NextGen Fellow, Meagan Day, partnered with More Perfect Unions YouTube channel (1.64 million subscribers) to produce deeply reported videos on welfare reform, the Walton familys reliance on public assistance, and the privatization of public institutions. Her videos reached hundreds of thousands of viewers and sparked significant public engagement, with comments praising the clarity, depth, and urgency of the reporting.Through these fellowships, EHRP broadened its reach to audiences who increasingly consume news through short form video, ensuring that stories of economic hardship remain visible, relevant, and compelling across platforms.Multimedia Projects, Documentary Storytelling & Public Engagement EHRP continued to expand its impact through a wide range of multimedia projects, including photography exhibits, documentary films, podcasts, radio features, and public events. These projects amplify underrepresented voices, deepen public understanding of inequality, and extend the life of EHRP supported reporting across multiple formats.In 2025, EHRP supported the Californians Powering America photography exhibit, an immersive visual project highlighting the essential yet often invisible labor of immigrant workers across agriculture, construction, food service, healthcare, and disaster recovery. The exhibit brought national attention to the contradictions facing immigrant laborers who sustain the American economy while facing increasing criminalization and economic vulnerability.EHRP also supported several award winning documentary films. Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, co produced with WNYC and The History Channel, won a Peabody Award for its powerful portrayal of the AIDS crisis and the communities whose stories were erased by poverty and racism. From the Barrio to the Frontline, produced with The Intercept, garnered more than 162,000 YouTube views. Stripped for Parts, a documentary about hedge funds impact on local newsrooms, was distributed on PBS and screened widely across the country. Additional films supported by EHRPincluding The Gas Station Attendant, Without Arrows, Renters in Revolt, and She Cried That Daywere featured at major festivals and on public media platforms.EHRP remained a strong supporter of audio journalism, funding podcasts and radio features that reached national audiences. Highlights included Natal, Nuoc: A Viet Cajun Story (winner of a Murrow Award), L.A. on the Margins, Going for Broke, and Between Land & Water. These projects brought lived experience storytelling to listeners across the country and deepened public understanding of how economic hardship intersects with race, gender, climate, and community resilience.EHRP also collaborated with artists and illustrators to extend the reach of reported stories, including partnerships with Diana Weymar and Molly Crabapple. These visual works helped bring attention to issues such as gentrification, disability rights, and tenant protections, and were featured in galleries, exhibitions, and major publications.Through these multimedia initiatives, EHRP broadened its impact beyond traditional journalism, ensuring that stories of working class Americans reach diverse audiences and endure across formats.

  Expenses $472,487 · Grants $102,233 · Revenue $52,000

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.

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

  $1,095,275

  Expenses

  $939,534

  Contributions

  $1,035,686

  Grants paid

  $102,233

• 2024

  Revenue

  $962,918

  Expenses

  $1,033,102

  Contributions

  $909,065

  Grants paid

  $126,238

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,224,191

  Expenses

  $1,334,394

  Contributions

  $1,214,406

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $960,098

  Expenses

  $1,343,589

  Contributions

  $827,447

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,271,455

  Expenses

  $1,342,686

  Contributions

  $1,193,967

  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

  $965,025

  Expenses

  $295

  Assets (EOY)

  $964,730

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $965,025

  Expenses

  $295

  Assets (EOY)

  $964,730

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

• Magnum Photos Inc

  $19,250

  2025 · Journalism grant

• Greene Fort Productions

  $10,150

  2025 · Journalism grant

• Greene Fort Productions

  $10,000

  2024 · Journalism grant

• Magnum Photos Inc

  $10,000

  2024 · Journalism grant

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

  $500,000

  2022 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

  $250,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $219,416

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $128,654

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $128,108

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $115,000

  2022 · Arts & Culture

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $115,000

  2023 · Arts & Culture

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $102,000

  2024 · Arts & Culture

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $12,600

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $12,500

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

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