Financial Disclosure
Dear Subscriber,
This is our latest financial report for the second quarter of our fiscal year 2022. Thank you for your continued support, which supplements our finances and allows us to continue our work.
Fiscal Year 2022, Second Quarter
(three months ending Dec. 31, 2021)
Annenberg Foundation: $149,523
Individual donors: $92,536
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: $63,418
Facebook (Third-Party Fact-Checking Program): $27,505
Facebook (National Association of Black Journalists fact-checking fellowship program): $17,472
Google: $19,405
National Science Foundation: $9,089
During this three-month period, we received a total of 823 gifts from individual donors, and the largest single donation was $15,000. The average individual donation was $112, and half of our individual donations were $25 or less.
In addition, we received $27,505 from Facebook as part of a fact-checking project to debunk viral deceptions circulating on social media, and $17,472 from Facebook to fund an NABJ fact-checking fellowship position at FactCheck.org. Facebook has no control over our editorial decisions.
We also received $63,418 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in this quarter. SciCheck’s COVID-19/Vaccination Project is made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The foundation has no control over our editorial decisions, and the views expressed on our website do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation.
For the quarter, we received $19,405 in funding from the Google News Initiative for a joint project with Univision Noticias to combat COVID-19 misinformation, and $9,089 from the National Science Foundation for our small role in a project called FACT CHAMP, which stands for Fact-checker, Academic, and Community Collaboration Tools: Combating Hate, Abuse, and Misinformation with Minority-led Partnerships.
Like all of our donors, Google and the National Science Foundation also have no control over our editorial decisions.
The individual donors who gave $1,000 or more in the second quarter:
Richard Heller, Media, Pennsylvania: $15,000
Keith W. Kriebel and Linda A. Wells, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: $7,988.61
Michael D. Apgar, Kalispell, Montana: $5,000
Cheryl Willems, Los Angeles, California: $3,000
Johnson and Louise H. Clark Charitable Foundation, Saratoga, California: $1,684.75
Donald McGee, Mukilteo, Washington: $1,500
Jeffrey S. May, Aurora, Illinois: $1,500
Michael Strizzi, Medford, Oregon: $1,000
The Susan and John Ryan Charitable Fund via Vanguard Charitable, Warwick, Rhode Island: $1,000
Diane Deshong, Beverly Hills, California: $1,000
Justin Houk, Hopkinton, Massachusetts: $1,000
Mary Wais, Crockett, California: $1,000
Claude Thau, Overland Park, Kansas: $1,000
Bob Shoemaker, Houston, Texas: $1,000
In addition to the sums reported here, FactCheck.org receives in-kind support from the Annenberg Public Policy Center including some infrastructure costs as well as supervisory, technical, and administrative support from APPC faculty and staff. We do not attempt to assign a dollar value to these in-kind services, which are funded from the APPC’s own resources.
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Sincerely,
Eugene Kiely
Director, FactCheck.org
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