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RELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION

EIN 31-1650883 COLUMBIA, MO

Revenue 2024
$9,440,759
Expenses 2024
$4,473,937

Program services were 74.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X11
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1808

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).

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.

  • DEBORAH CALDWELL

    CEO AND PUBLISHER

    Total calculated
    $203,877
    From this org
    $192,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,377
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $192,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,605
    Nontaxable benefits
    $772
    Filer's total
    $203,877

  • KEN CHITWOOD

    PAST VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $7,200
    From this org
    $7,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 1 related

  • DAVE ROBERSON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SEAN COUGHLIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBYN TOMLIN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHAHED AMANULLAH

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JU-DON MARSHALL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE WALDMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELAINE JUSTICE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • THOMAS LEVINSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETSY SHIRLEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • WON KIM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN TERRILL

    PAST BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • LAURA WILSON

    FINANCE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $87,086
    From this org
    $81,631
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,455
    Hours/week
    20

  • PATRICIA TERRELL

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $105,139
    From this org
    $93,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,389
    Hours/week
    40

  • PAUL O'DONNELL

    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

    Total calculated
    $177,784
    From this org
    $135,965
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,819
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,965
    Bonus
    $2,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,854
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,965
    Filer's total
    $177,784

  • ROXANNE STONE

    MANAGING EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $135,320
    From this org
    $120,080
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,240
    Hours/week
    40

  • TYLER BORCHERS

    OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $154,474
    From this org
    $140,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,599
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $138,375
    Bonus
    $2,500
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,681
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,918
    Filer's total
    $154,474

  • ROBERT SMIETANA

    NATIONAL REPORTER

    Total calculated
    $146,437
    From this org
    $115,068
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,369
    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 — 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
    $9,440,759
    Expenses
    $4,473,937
    Contributions
    $9,029,426
    Grants paid
    $16,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,363,996
    Expenses
    $3,723,335
    Contributions
    $850,598
    Grants paid
    $17,797
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,642,797
    Expenses
    $3,022,930
    Contributions
    $6,260,479
    Grants paid
    $20,500

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

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 2026, under deductibility SO.

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.