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We closed our fiscal year 2022 on June 30, and received nearly $170,000 in individual contributions from readers like you. That’s down from last year's amount of $209,000.
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Financial Disclosure:
Fiscal Year 2022
(12 months ending June 30, 2022)
Annenberg Foundation: $659,050
Facebook (Third-Party Fact-Checking Program): $201,574
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: $198,932
Individual donors: $169,560
Facebook (National Association of Black Journalists fact-checking fellowship program): $69,968
Google: $51,395
National Science Foundation: $29,229
During this 12-month period, we received 1,903 gifts from individual donors, the largest of which was $16,700. The average individual donation was about $89, and half of our individual donations were $25 or less.
In addition, we received $201,574 from Facebook as part of a fact-checking project to debunk viral deceptions circulating on social media, and $69,968 from Facebook to fund an NABJ fact-checking fellowship position at FactCheck.org. Facebook has no control over our editorial decisions.
We also received $198,932 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 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 fiscal year, we also received $51,395 in funding from the Google News Initiative for a joint project with Univision Noticias to combat COVID-19 misinformation, and $29,229 from the National Science Foundation for our small role in a research project formerly called FACT CHAMP and now known as Co·Insights.
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 fiscal year 2022:
Warner-Murchie-Farquhar Family Fund, Traverse City, Michigan: $16,700
Richard Heller, Media, Pennsylvania: $15,000
Bessie Rattner Foundation, Glendale, New York: $10,000
Keith W. Kriebel and Linda A. Wells, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: $7,989
Donald McGee, Mukilteo, Washington: $5,500
Michael D. Apgar, Kalispell, Montana: $5,000
Allen Stenger, Alamogordo, New Mexico: $5,000
William Crudup, New York, New York: $3,000
Cheryl Willems, Los Angeles, California: $3,000
First Dollar Foundation, San Francisco, California: $2,000
Johnson and Louise H. Clark Charitable Foundation, Saratoga, California: $1,685
Jeffrey S. May, Aurora, Illinois: $1,500
Diane Deshong, Beverly Hills, California: $1,000
Susan M. Ehrhardt, El Cajon, California: $1,000
Claude Thau, Overland Park, Kansas: $1,000
Justin Houk, Hopkinton, Massachusetts: $1,000
Robert Steinberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts: $1,000
The Susan and John Ryan Charitable Fund via Vanguard Charitable, Warwick, Rhode Island: $1,000
Charles Schwenk, Portland, Oregon: $1,000
Bob Shoemaker, Houston, Texas: $1,000
Michael Strizzi, Medford, Oregon: $1,000
Nithi Vivatrat, Washington, D.C.: $1,000
Mary Wais, Crockett, California: $1,000
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