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THE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

EIN 94-2282759 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$11,751,195
Expenses 2024
$11,668,072

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W00C
Classification
2000
Street
222 SUTTER ST STE 600

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.

  • Diana Victoria Baranetsky

    General Counsel

    Total calculated
    $141,499
    From this org
    $129,723
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,776
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Monika Bauerlein

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $136,061
    From this org
    $123,766
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,295
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Clara Jeffery

    VP-Ed in Chief

    Total calculated
    $131,555
    From this org
    $126,517
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,038
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • David Corn

    DC Bureau Chief

    Total calculated
    $127,464
    From this org
    $125,035
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,429
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Khary Brown

    VP Media Sales

    Total calculated
    $124,712
    From this org
    $107,940
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,772
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Brian Hiatt

    Marketing Dir

    Total calculated
    $116,287
    From this org
    $103,429
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,858
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Jahna Berry

    COO

    Total calculated
    $113,199
    From this org
    $100,713
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,486
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Kevin Walter

    Assoc Publisher

    Total calculated
    $111,373
    From this org
    $95,079
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,294
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Madeleine Buckingham

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $89,881
    From this org
    $78,797
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,084
    Hours/week
    25

  • Erina Atkins

    Controller

    Total calculated
    $89,119
    From this org
    $78,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,619
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Angela Earlye

    Bus Mgr/Board

    Total calculated
    $48,833
    From this org
    $44,722
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,111
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Grace Molteni

    Reporter/Board

    Total calculated
    $48,201
    From this org
    $42,807
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,394
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Judy Wise

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Alan Melcher

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sara Frankel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bch Ngoc Cao

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ekow Yankah

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bill Gee

    Investment Chai

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Rafael Agustn

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jane Butcher

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Andr Carothers

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lauri Fitz-Pegado

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Linda Gruber

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Omar Alam

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Angie Jean-Marie

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $11,751,195
    Expenses
    $11,668,072
    Contributions
    $10,026,093
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $21,772,313
    Expenses
    $22,006,033
    Contributions
    $17,500,047
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $16,230,056
    Expenses
    $17,776,493
    Contributions
    $14,248,985
    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

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

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

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $2,147 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$6,957 to charity

  • QCSS INC.

    $1,003 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $675 to charity

  • TELEFUND LLC

    $4,735 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$12,269 to charity

  • QCSS INC.

    $553 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

  • QCSS INC.

    $240 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $0 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.