- Revenue 2025
- $8,769,507
- Expenses 2025
- $8,725,813
Program services were 86.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A01
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- PO BOX 60238
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 · 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.
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CRAIG AARON
PRESIDENT, CO-CEO
- Total calculated
- $215,525
- From this org
- $155,324
- From related orgs
- $27,410
- Other
- $32,791
- Hours/week
- 34 + 6 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $155,324 + $27,410 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,177 + $1,619 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $18,696 + $3,299 related
- Filer's total
- $183,197 + $32,328 related
-
VANESSA CARDENAS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
HENRY FERNANDEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
VICTOR PICKARD
DIRECTOR, CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
HEIDI BEIRICH
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
MARTHA FUENTES-BAUTISTA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
KIMBERLY LONGEY
COO/CFO, ASST. TREASURER, ASST. SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $199,825
- From this org
- $165,264
- From related orgs
- $12,439
- Other
- $22,122
- Hours/week
- 37 + 3 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,264 + $12,439 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,846 + $741 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $10,728 + $807 related
- Filer's total
- $185,838 + $13,987 related
-
JESSICA GONZALEZ
CO-CEO
- Total calculated
- $211,818
- From this org
- $161,064
- From related orgs
- $28,423
- Other
- $22,331
- Hours/week
- 34 + 6 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $161,064 + $28,423 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,177 + $1,619 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $9,805 + $1,730 related
- Filer's total
- $180,046 + $31,772 related
-
MATTHEW WOOD
VICE PRESIDENT OF POLICY AND GENERAL COUNSEL
- Total calculated
- $208,445
- From this org
- $144,969
- From related orgs
- $31,823
- Other
- $31,653
- Hours/week
- 33 + 7 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $144,969 + $31,823 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,920 + $1,738 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $18,036 + $3,959 related
- Filer's total
- $170,925 + $37,520 related
-
MISTY PEREZ TRUEDSON
CHIEF OF STAFF
- Total calculated
- $205,160
- From this org
- $170,312
- From related orgs
- $3,476
- Other
- $31,372
- Hours/week
- 39 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $170,312 + $3,476 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,189 + $188 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $21,555 + $440 related
- Filer's total
- $201,056 + $4,104 related
-
NORA BENAVIDEZ
SENIOR COUNSEL AND DIRECTOR, DIGITAL JUSTICE AND C
- Total calculated
- $159,939
- From this org
- $136,740
- From related orgs
- $4,229
- Other
- $18,970
- Hours/week
- 39 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $136,740 + $4,229 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,212 + $223 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,189 + $346 related
- Filer's total
- $155,141 + $4,798 related
-
DUTCH COSIMAN
SENIOR PRODUCT DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $156,922
- From this org
- $140,287
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,635
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $140,287
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $5,100
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,535
- Filer's total
- $156,922
-
CANDACE CLEMENT
MANAGING DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $180,933
- From this org
- $135,635
- From related orgs
- $15,071
- Other
- $30,227
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $135,635 + $15,071 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,408 + $823 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $19,796 + $2,200 related
- Filer's total
- $162,839 + $18,094 related
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
-
2025
- Revenue
- $8,769,507
- Expenses
- $8,725,813
- Contributions
- $8,401,193
- Grants paid
- $1,583,000
-
2024
- Revenue
- $5,837,022
- Expenses
- $7,341,969
- Contributions
- $5,254,245
- Grants paid
- $900,000
-
2023
- Revenue
- $8,915,775
- Expenses
- $6,512,640
- Contributions
- $8,592,672
- Grants paid
- $749,999
-
2022
- Revenue
- $10,157,505
- Expenses
- $5,255,618
- Contributions
- $10,063,720
- Grants paid
- $301,500
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.
Grants made
-
$600,000
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT OF MEDIA FREEDOM FOUNDATION'S PROJECT CENSORED ACTIVITIES
-
$600,000
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT OF MEDIA FREEDOM FOUNDATION'S PROJECT CENSORED ACTIVITIES
-
$300,000
2024 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
-
$300,000
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT OF MEDIA FREEDOM FOUNDATION'S PROJECT CENSORED ACTIVITIES
-
$100,000
2023 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
-
2023 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
-
$13,333
2023 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
-
2023 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
-
2023 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
-
2025 PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
$320,000
2023 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
-
$300,000
2023 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
-
$250,000
2024 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
-
$250,000
2022 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
-
$250,000
2022 CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY
-
$175,000
2023 CROSSCUTTING STRATEGIES
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$150,000
2022 CHARITABLE DONATION
-
$147,951
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
FIDUCIARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
$118,000
2024 DONATIONS
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 2025 return
-
501(C)(4) · PROMOTING MEDIA REFORM IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST · DC
Declared as related by
-
On its 2025 return
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 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.