Financial Disclosure
Dear Subscriber,
This is our latest financial report for the third quarter of our fiscal year 2022. Thanks to all who have made donations, which supplement our finances and allow us to continue our work.
Fiscal Year 2022, Third Quarter
(three months ending March 31, 2022)
Annenberg Foundation: $180,221
Facebook (Third-Party Fact-Checking Program): $66,865
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: $35,816
Individual donors: $33,226
Facebook (National Association of Black Journalists fact-checking fellowship program): $16,999
Google: $19,870
National Science Foundation: $9,278
During this three-month period, we received a total of 371 gifts from individual donors, and the largest single donation was $10,000. The average individual donation was $90, and half of our individual donations were $15 or less.
In addition, we received $66,865 from Facebook as part of a fact-checking project to debunk social media misinformation, and $16,999 from Facebook to fund an NABJ fact-checking fellowship position at FactCheck.org. Facebook has no control over our editorial decisions.
We also received $35,816 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 $19,870 in funding from the Google News Initiative for a joint project with Univision Noticias to combat COVID-19 misinformation, and $9,278 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 third quarter:
Bessie Rattner Foundation, Glendale, New York: $10,000
Allen Stenger, Alamogordo, New Mexico: $5,000
William Crudup, New York, New York: $3,000
Donald McGee, Mukilteo, Washington: $1,500
Susan M. Ehrhardt, El Cajon, California: $1,000
Robert Steinberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts: $1,000
Nithi Vivatrat, Washington, D.C.: $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.
So far, we have received $158,123 in individual donations for the first three quarters of FY 2022. If you would like to make a donation, please visit our “Donate” page, where you can contribute via credit card.
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Sincerely,
Eugene Kiely
Director, FactCheck.org
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