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FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC

EIN 52-0895081 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$1,546,143
Expenses 2024
$970,336

Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1100 13TH ST NW STE 800

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

27 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 800). 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

THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES CRITICAL SUPPORT TO INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS TO INVESTIGATE NEWS STORIES REGARDING CORRUPTION, MALFEASANCE, EXPLOITATION, MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE SCHEDULE O

  • FOUNDED IN 1969, THE FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, INC. THE ORGANIZATION IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES GRANTS AND OTHER SUPPORT TO INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS AND NEWS ORGANIZATIONS TO PRODUCE HIGH-QUALITY, UNBIASED, NONPARTISAN INVESTIGATIVE STORIES THAT HAVE AN IMPACT. THE ORGANIZATIONS MAIN SOURCE OF REVENUE ARE CONTRIBUTIONS AND GRANTS.

    Expenses $861,514 · Grants $621,161

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.

  • Eric Ferrero

    SECRETARY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $173,760
    From this org
    $157,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,260
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $157,500
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,300
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,960
    Filer's total
    $173,760

  • Bill Marimow

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Anu Narayanswamy

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Alan Berlow

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Daffodil Altan

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Valeria Fernandez

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Dianna Hunt

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Gerald Jordan

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Jennifer Lafleur

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Amy Pyle

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Kimbriell Kelly

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Jim Steele

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Ellen Weiss

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Bernice Yeung

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

  • Vernon Loeb

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.25

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
    $1,546,143
    Expenses
    $970,336
    Contributions
    $1,443,700
    Grants paid
    $621,161
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $837,462
    Expenses
    $841,619
    Contributions
    $790,752
    Grants paid
    $514,577
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,313,322
    Expenses
    $708,244
    Contributions
    $1,304,431
    Grants paid
    $396,938

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
    $1,170,709
    Expenses
    $739,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,352,222

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $531,669
    Expenses
    $651,660
    Assets (EOY)
    $955,083

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $424,491
    Expenses
    $539,608
    Assets (EOY)
    $968,571

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $431,594
    Expenses
    $457,185
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,043,420

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $843,013
    Expenses
    $479,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,004,104

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $440,393
    Expenses
    $426,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $579,518

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $450,618
    Expenses
    $326,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $543,246

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.