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REBUILD LOCAL NEWS

EIN 92-0480649 BROOKLYN, NY

Revenue 2025
$4,460,763
Expenses 2025
$2,229,405

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B05
Classification
2000
Street
535 FLATBUSH AVENUE 326

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 · 2025

Mission

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC POLICIES TO COUNTER THE COLLAPSE OF LOCAL NEWS, REVITALIZE COMMUNITY JOURNALISM, AND STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY.

  • TO ADVANCE PUBLIC POLICIES TO COUNTER THE COLLAPSE OF LOCAL NEWS, REVITALIZE COMMUNITY JOURNALISM, AND STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY.

    Expenses $1,702,714 · Revenue $4,460,763

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.

  • PAULETTE BROWN-HINDS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LENNY MENDONCA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM FREIDLICH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRACIELA MOCHKOFSKY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KANG-XING JIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNA LIN MITCHELL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVEN WALDMAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $285,815
    From this org
    $285,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $260,815
    Bonus
    $25,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $285,815

  • JENNA MALLETTE

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $146,553
    From this org
    $146,553
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MATTHEW PEARCE

    POLICY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $106,372
    From this org
    $106,372
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,460,763
    Expenses
    $2,229,405
    Contributions
    $4,414,061
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,577,495
    Expenses
    $755,130
    Contributions
    $2,576,053
    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.

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.