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Below is our financial report for fiscal year 2023, which ended June 30. 

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Fiscal Year 2023
(12 months ending June 30, 2023)

Annenberg Foundation: $796,691

Facebook (Third-Party Fact-Checking Program): $339,279

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: $276,024

Individual donors: $122,183

National Science Foundation: $7,955

Facebook (National Association of Black Journalists fact-checking fellowship program): $4,244

During this 12-month period, we received a total of 1,539 gifts from individual donors, and the largest single donation was $15,000. The average individual donation was $80, and half of our individual donations were $20 or less.

In addition, we received $339,279 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 $276,024 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. SciCheck articles correcting health misinformation are 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 received $7,955 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.

The individual donors who gave $1,000 or more:

Richard Heller, Media, Pennsylvania: $15,000

Keith W. Kriebel and Linda A. Wells, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: $6,595

Donald McGee, Mukilteo, Washington: $6,600

First Dollar Foundation, Napa, California: $5,000

Allen Stenger, Alamogordo, New Mexico: $5,000

Bessie Rattner Foundation, Glendale, New York: $5,000

Mo and Cher Willems Foundation, Los Angeles, California: $3,000

David J. Spector, New York, New York: $2,500

Michael Strizzi, Medford, Oregon: $1,000

Kathleen Utgoff, Falls Church, Virginia: $1,000

The Susan and John Ryan Charitable Fund via Vanguard Charitable, Warwick, Rhode Island: $1,000

Justin Houk, Hopkinton, Massachusetts: $1,000

Claude Thau, Overland Park, Kansas: $1,000

Jeffrey S. May, Aurora, Illinois: $1,000

James R. Shoemaker, Houston, Texas: $1,000

Goodman Family Fund via Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Cincinnati, Ohio: $1,000

Sincerely,

Eugene Kiely
Director, FactCheck.org