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Dear Subscriber,
We closed our fiscal year 2019 on June 30, and can now report that FactCheck.org received $121,726 in individual contributions from readers like you.
That’s slightly less than last year, and the fourth-highest amount we have raised since we began accepting individual donations in 2010.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to support our work. As I’ve mentioned before, your support is more important to us than ever before. Our primary funding source remains a founding grant from the Annenberg Foundation. In fiscal 2019, the Annenberg Foundation grant provided us with nearly $700,000 toward our operating costs. But that founding grant is dwindling, and we have increasingly relied on individual donations to supplement our finances and continue our work.
Your donations have helped us to extend the life of FactCheck.org.
In FY2019, we also received support from the Stanton Foundation and Facebook. The amounts and details are below in our year-end and fourth quarter fiscal reports.
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Sincerely,
Eugene Kiely
Director, FactCheck.org
Fiscal Year 2019
(12 months ending June 30, 2019)
Annenberg Foundation: $694,117
Facebook: $242,400
Stanton Foundation: $100,000
Individual donors: $121,726
In fiscal year 2019, we received a total of 1,768 gifts from individual donors, the largest of which was $10,000. The average individual donation was $69, and half of our individual donations were $25 or less.
In addition, we received $242,400 from Facebook as part of a national project to debunk viral deceptions circulating on social media, and a $100,000 grant from the Stanton Foundation, which funded our undergraduate fellowship program, helped to underwrite our 2018 election coverage, and provided general operating expenses in fiscal 2019.
The individual donors who gave $1,000 or more:
Richard Heller, Media, Pennsylvania: $10,000
Donald McGee, Mukilteo, Washington: $6,000
Allen Stenger, Alamogordo, New Mexico: $5,000
Bessie Rattner Foundation, Glendale, New York: $5,000
Johnson and Louise H. Clark Charitable Foundation, Saratoga, California: $3,514
Lydia Holland, Princeton, New Jersey: $1,500
Mo and Cher Willems Foundation, Los Angeles, California: $1,500
Diane Deshong, Beverly Hills, California: $2,000
Shaw Green, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania: $1,000
Anne T. Hilbert, Lakeway, Texas: $2,000
Leslie Walker Charitable Fund: $1,000
Joslyn Levy, New York, New York: $1,000
Jeffrey S. May, Aurora, Illinois: $1,000
Ashish Myles, New York, New York: $1,000
Fiscal Year 2019, Fourth Quarter
(three months ending June 30, 2019)
Annenberg Foundation: $206,308
Facebook: $64,600
Individual donors: $23,247
During this three-month period, we received a total of 384 gifts from individual donors, the largest of which was $5,000. The average individual donation was $61, and half of our individual donations were $20 or less. In addition, we received $64,600 from Facebook as part of a project to debunk viral deceptions circulating on social media. Facebook has no control over our editorial decisions.
The individual donors who gave $1,000 or more:
Allen Stenger, Alamogordo, New Mexico: $5,000
Donald McGee, Mukilteo, Washington: $1,500
Diane Deshong, Beverly Hills, California: $1,000
Anne T. Hilbert, Lakeway, Texas: $1,000
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