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Financial Disclosure:
Fiscal Year 2023
(three months ending September 30, 2022)
Annenberg Foundation: $212,837
Facebook (Third-Party Fact-Checking Program): $132,491
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: $49,895
Individual donors: $11,778
Facebook (National Association of Black Journalists fact-checking fellowship program): $4,244
National Science Foundation: $6,482
During this three-month period, we received a total of 323 gifts from individual donors, and the largest single donation was $500. The average individual donation was $36, and half of our individual donations were $15 or less.
In addition, we received $132,491 from Facebook as part of a fact-checking project to debunk social media misinformation, and $4,244 from Facebook to fund an NABJ fact-checking fellowship position at FactCheck.org. Facebook has no control over our editorial decisions.
We also received $49,895 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 $6,482 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 funders, the National Science Foundation also has no control over our editorial decisions.
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