GRIST MAGAZINE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C99

Classification

3000

Street

1601 5TH AVENUE 9TH FLOOR

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

• Publishing climate and sustainability news and commentary: Grist published more than 800 articles on climate and sustainability topics during the fiscal year, ranging from short news items to in-depth interviews and features. The organization reached an average of 2.6m readers per month, including website visitors, email subscribers, and offsite (primarily social-media) audiences.

  Expenses $5,966,306

• Fostering civic engagement: Grist's goal is to create a vibrant community of people who support sustainability; make sustainable choices and encourage their communities to do the same; and encourage readers to use social media and other tools to activate their personal networks and to create lasting change.

  Expenses $548,945

• Train a new generation of journalists: By providing hands-on journalism experience as well as exposure to leading environmental thinkers, the Grist Fellowship Program trains early-career journalists to become effective environmental communicators. Grist hosts groups of five fellows for six-month terms. Fellows participate in research and story generation, crafting investigative stories and ground breaking multimedia projects.

  Expenses $627,999

• Serving as a resource for other media: Grist informs and influences coverage of climate and energy in major media including The New York Times, Washington Post, ProPublica, the Seattle Times and more, and has served as an expert source for NPR, the BBC, PRX, PBS, and other networks.

  Expenses $278,650

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.

The first 25 listed. 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

  $10,366,804

  Expenses

  $10,166,181

  Contributions

  $9,904,409

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $10,021,639

  Expenses

  $9,754,594

  Contributions

  $9,390,396

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,595,247

  Expenses

  $8,930,092

  Contributions

  $8,232,699

  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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,337,542

  Expenses

  $8,458,734

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,095,645

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,804,912

  Expenses

  $8,040,435

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,834,891

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,503,892

  Expenses

  $6,293,612

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,708,689

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,825,370

  Expenses

  $4,706,016

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,659,085

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,339,763

  Expenses

  $3,848,144

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,338,435

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

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $1,253,250

  2022 · Arts & Culture

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $1,110,000

  2023 · Arts & Culture

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $803,000

  2024 · Arts & Culture

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $354,900

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASSETS UNDER MOVEMENT

  $350,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $314,790

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• WINDWARD FUND

  $310,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS

• UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION

  $260,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND OUTREACH TO BUILD A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE.

• UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION

  $260,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND OUTREACH TO BUILD A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE.

• AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC

  $176,625

  2024 · TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY REVENUE AND TO ADVANCE TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR LOCAL NEWS.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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