Mission

To advance and inform public discourse and citizen participation around the most pressing issues of our time through the support of independent journalism and journalistic projects at the Guardian.

To further this mission we:

Support

journalistic projects that critically inform the public.

Convene

events and disseminate information about freedom of expression and freedom of the press.

Identify

and support projects aimed at strengthening the capacity of independent news organizations to reach broad, diverse audiences and create sustainable business models.

To amplify and accelerate the impact of this work, theguardian.org will identify projects where it can partner across a range of organizations including academic institutions, other charitable organizations, non-profit media, and NGOs

People

Asha Curran
Chair

Asha Curran
Asha is CEO of #GivingTuesday, the global generosity movement. She was Chief Innovation Officer and Director of the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at the 92nd Street Y and still serves as co-chair of the Belfer Center. She is the recipient of the 2015 Social Capital Hero Award, named a 2016 Woman of Influence by New York Business Journals, and is a Forty over 40 Women to Watch honoree. She also serves on the board of directors of the Scout Film Festival and is a Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab in the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University.

Alice Rhee
Board Member

Alice Rhee
Alice is the Chief Global Partnerships and Communications Officer at the Skoll Foundation. A philanthropy executive, world-class storyteller, and two-time Emmy Award-winning television producer, Ms. Rhee was previously the Head of Strategic Partnerships & Place-Based Philanthropy at the American Journalism Project (AJP). Prior to her role at AJP, Alice served as the Director of Media for a private family philanthropy where she built social impact storytelling initiatives and co-founded a nonprofit news organization focused on economic inequality in San Antonio, Texas.
Alice held various editorial and production roles at NBC News headquarters in New York City covering breaking news and domestic and international news. She was also Senior Producer of Digital Video at The Washington Post before transitioning to philanthropy and nonprofit storytelling. Alice received national News & Documentary Emmy Awards for her coverage of the crash of Singapore Airlines and the Middle East conflict. She is also the recipient of several national and regional awards including a National Headliners Award and the New York Newswomen's Award for her reporting in the days following 9/11. The Smithsonian Institution recognized her contributions as a professional journalist during its Korean-American Centennial Commemoration. Currently, Alice acts as an independent trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She is co-chair of the Information, Media, and Technology pillar at the Partnership for American Democracy and an advisory circle member of JustFund. She also serves on the board of a new nonprofit content accelerator for BIPOC creators, artists, and entrepreneurs being launched by Dan Lin, founder of Rideback. Alice is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Vivian Schiller
Board Member

Vivian Schiller
Vivian is a longtime executive at the intersection of journalism, media and technology. Starting in January 2020, she will lead the Aspen Institute’s program examining the role of media and technology in society. She currently heads the Civil Foundation, an independent not-for-profit committed to the sustainability of trustworthy journalism around the world. She is also strategic advisor to Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Over the last 30 years, Vivian has held executive roles at some of the most respected media organization in the world. Those include: President and CEO of NPR; Global Chair of News at Twitter; General Manager of NYTimes.com; Chief Digital Office of NBC News; chief of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications; and head of CNN documentary and long form divisions. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys. Vivian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.

Lois Quam
Board Member

Lois Quam
Lois is the Chief Executive Officer of Pathfinder International. She was selected by President Obama to head his signature Global Health Initiative at the Department of State, which provided more than $8 billion dollars annually across over 80 countries. Prior to her work in the public sector, Lois was the founding CEO of a $32 billion division of the FORTUNE 50 global corporation UnitedHealth Group. She was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of The Nature Conservancy. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Fund and Xynteo, a privately-held Norwegian company. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for American Progress and formerly served on the Board of Editors of the British Medical Journal. A devoted Guardian reader since she studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, Lois read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. While at Oxford, she served as President of the Oxford University Labour Club and as an official in the Oxford Labour Party. A Norwegian American from Minnesota, she is also a graduate of Macalester College.

Cedric Brown
Board Member

Cedric Brown
Cedric is an award-winning social impact leader with 20+ years of deep and varied experience in the philanthropy and NGO sectors. He has built a significant track record of working to ensure pathways to opportunities for people of color in the U.S. through voter education/civic engagement, tech entrepreneurship, tech inclusion, arts and cultural representation, and college readiness and completion. His notable leadership roles and collaborations include those with the Kapor Center & Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, Google, Color of Change, the Congressional Black Caucus, Oakland Museum of California, Blavity/AfroTech, and most recently, the Obama Foundation. Cedric is a published author, largely interested in the African Diaspora and Black LGBTQ themes. He is the founder of the Jacobs/Jones African American Literary Prize, now a program of the North Carolina Writers Network. He is an Atlantic Senior Fellow. An avid traveler, Cedric is currently exploring transnational leadership development and initiatives in social impact and cultural spaces.

Richard Addy
Board Member

Richard Addy
Richard is a Co-Founder of AKAS an international consultancy founded in 2012, delivering impact, audience, corporate, narrative and communication strategies to a wide range of purpose-led organisations predominantly in the media, philanthropy, international institution and NGO sectors. In the media space AKAS has worked with The Guardian, BBC News, BBC World Service, BBC Media Action, Channel 4 News/ITN, EUObserver, Balkan Investigative Reporters Network, Hromadske, CPJ (Committee To Protect Journalists), ICFJ (International Center For Journalists), The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Thomson Foundation, Luminate, Adessium, Deutsche Welle Akademie, Rudolf Augstein Foundation, Wellcome, Civitates, Internews, Participant Media and Warner Bros. Prior to setting up AKAS, Richard gained 20 years’ experience working as a Strategist and a Government Economist advising CEOs, Government ministers, and organisational leaders. After being a trustee of Mind, the UK’s leading mental health charity, for 8 years, Richard was appointed by the Board as chair of Mind's Race Equality Advisory Board and as a board advisor. Since 2020, Richard also sits on the Creative Council of Africa No Filter, an organisation that aims to change global narratives about Africa.

Rachel White
President

Rachel White
Rachel White is president of theguardian.org and executive vice president, philanthropic and strategic partnerships at Guardian News and Media. Working with global editorial teams she develops, funds, and executes editorial projects that drive measurable impact. Prior to joining the Guardian, she served as executive vice president and interim president of the Washington D.C.-based, journalism-centered think tank New America Foundation. Working across media, policy, government, the private sector, and philanthropy, she led the organization in advancing new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States, and launched New America NYC and New America Live. From 1995 to 2005, Rachel worked for the World Wildlife Fund where she launched programs in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Houston, and served as lead on the Living Planet Campaign.

Manie Steyn
Treasurer

Manie Steyn
Manie is Finance Business partner - Editorial UK, Philanthropic and Platform partnerships. He is an essential part of the Guardian’s finance leadership team. He has worked at the Guardian for over 9 years and has managed the finances of the Guardian’s Philanthropic department for the past 5 years. Prior to joining the Guardian, Manie worked in various finance roles within non profit and media sectors. Manie graduated from the University of South Africa with a degree in cost and management accounting.

Victoria Collins
Board Secretary

Victoria Collins
Victoria is board secretary and director of operations for theguardian.org and manager of philanthropic and strategic partnerships at the Guardian. Prior to joining the Guardian in 2017, her career spanned the non-profit, legal, and government sectors. Victoria is a graduate of Georgia State University and holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Partners

https://humanityunited.org/

Humanity United has made the following grants to theguardian.org for reporting on modern day slavery, exploitation and human rights: $800,000 (2016-2018); $800,000 (2019-2021); and $1,500,000 (2021-2022).

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Humanity United
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https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation made a one year grant  of $250,000 to theguardian.org for reporting on early childhood development (2017-2018).

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
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http://skoll.org/

Skoll Foundation made a four month grant of $100,000 to theguardian.org for climate change reporting (2017) and a six month grant of $220,000 for reporting on solutions and social innovation (2018).

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Skoll Foundation
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http://www.sej.org/

Society of Environmental Journalists made the following grants to theguardian.org for reporting on public lands: $340,000 (2017-2019); $140,000 (2019-2020); and $120,000 (2020-2021) and the following grant for reporting on oceans: $200,000 (2021-2023).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.packard.org/

Open Philanthropy has made the following grants to theguardian.org for reporting on factory farming and animal cruelty: $886,600 (2017-2019); $900,000 (2019-2021); and $450,000 (2021-2022).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.packard.org/

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation made the following grants to theguardian.org for reporting on the connections between ocean conservation and climate change: $250,000 (2018-2019); $200,000 (2019); $300,000 (2019-2020); $250,000 (2021-2022); and $600,000 (2022-2024).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.ef.org/

Energy Foundation has made the following grants to theguardian.org to strengthen capacity for reporting on climate change, politics, and energy policy in the US: $200,000 (2018-2019); $250,000 (2019-2020) and $75,000 (2020-2021).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.calwellness.org/

California Wellness Foundation has made three grants to theguardian.org for reporting on gun violence in California: $250,000 (2018-2020); $50,000 (2020-2021); and $700,000 (2021-2024).

Skoll Foundation
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https://parkfoundation.org/

Park Foundation has made the following unrestricted grants to theguardian.org: $125,000 (2018); $150,000 (2020); $150,000 (2021); and a grant of $150,000 to support reporting on US voting rights (2019).

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Skoll Foundation
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http://www.11thhourproject.org/

The 11th Hour Project has made the following grants to theguardian.org for environmental justice and food insecurity reporting: $250,000 (2019-2020); $500,000 (2020-2021); and $500,000 (2021-2022).

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Skoll Foundation
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http://bandfdn.org/

The BAND Foundation has the following grants to theguardian.org to support expanded reporting on biodiversity loss: $500,000 (2019-2020);  $300,000 (2021); and $300,000 (2022).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.wyssfoundation.org/

The Wyss Foundation has made the following grants to theguardian.org to support reporting on global extinction and biodiversity loss: $500,000 (2019-2020) and $200,000 (2021).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.akdn.org/our-agencies/aga-khan-foundation

 

Aga Khan Foundation made a grant of £38,000 to theguardian.org for reporting on girls education in Afghanistan.

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/

 

Open Society Foundations provided the following support to theguardian.org: $250,000 for reporting on gender inequality in the US (2019-2020); $500,000 (2020-2021) and $500,000 (2021-2022) for reporting on climate justice; $125,000 for reporting on inequality and COVID-19 (2021); and $400,000 for reporting on vaccine equity (2022-2023).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

 

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation made a grant of $175,000 to theguardian.org to support a workshop and research project on philanthropic support for journalism (2019-2021).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://oakfnd.org/

 

Oak Foundation has supported theguardian.org with a grant of $600,000 for two years to support the Age of Extinction reporting project.

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Skoll Foundation
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https://waterfdn.org/

 

Water Foundation made a grant of $30,000 to theguardian.org for reporting on water access issues in the US (2020-2021).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/

 

Arcadia - a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, made a grant of $900,000 to theguardian.org to support Age of Extinction (2021-2024).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://mcpzfoundation.org/

 

The McPike-Zima Foundation has made a grant of $50,000 to theguardian.org to support Seascape (2022).

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Skoll Foundation
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https://helmsleytrust.org/

 

Helmsley Charitable Trust has made a grant of $1,500,000 to theguardian.org to support reporting on non-communicable diseases in the developing world (2021-2023).

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Skoll Foundation
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Projects

theguardian.org has made grants to support the following journalistic projects:

 

Governance

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Political activity

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Conflict of interest

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Resource sharing with Guardian News & Media

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Our Funding

We are grateful to the following organizations and individuals who have supported theguardian.org and our mission.

$500,000 and above
11th Hour Project
Arcadia Fund
BAND Foundation
California Wellness Foundation
Helmsley Charitable Trust
Humanity United
Oak Foundation
Open Philanthropy Project
Open Society Foundations
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Schumann Media Center
Society of Environmental Journalists
Wyss Foundation

$250,000-$499,999
Anonymous
Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Energy Foundation
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Park Foundation
Skoll Foundation

$100,000-$249,999
Equation Campaign
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Rockefeller Family Fund

$10,000-$99,999
Aga Khan Foundation
Thomas A. Barron
BMO Charitable Fund Program, National Philanthropic Trust
The Clements Foundation
Juan M. Cordova Foundation
Crankstart
Fidelity Charitable
The Fledgling Fund
Goldman Environmental Foundation
Grantham Foundation
Kaiser Family Foundation
Mai Family Foundation
New York Life Foundation
RSF Social Finance
Maine Community Foundation
Tides Foundation
Tortuga Foundation
Vanguard Charitable
Water Foundation

$5,000-$9,999
Abby Rockefeller
Benevity/American Online Giving Foundation
Hodgman Family Fund
Jewish Communal Fund
Schwab Charitable

$1,000-$4,999
American Endowment Foundation
Miriam Marie Ariel
Dick and Diana Beattie
Blackbaud Giving Fund
Andrew and Renee Choi Charitable Fund
The Clinton Family Fund
Austin and Lauren Fite Foundation
Community Foundation Boulder County
Dragonfly Fund, Impact Assets
Ann Hart
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Lenny Mendonca
National Philanthropic Trust
Pick Family Foundation
Pittman Family Foundation
Rose Foundation for Communities & the Environment
Theodore Roosevelt IV
TIAA Charitable
Vivian Schiller & Phil Frank
Zipporah Schefrin
Daniel & Debra Shrader
Jessie Vanamee & Jeff Zekauskas
Todd Vogel & Karen Hust
UBS Donor Advised Fund
Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation

$500-$999
Bright Funds
Stephen & Phyllis Dorsi
Laurie Logan & Alice Bachop
Fidelity Brokerage Services
Carlyle and Margot Maw Foundation
Houston Jewish Community Foundation
IBM Employee Charitable Contribution Fund
Frank & Ashley O'Keefe
Rebecca & John Petrik
Ann Richards

2016 Audited Financial Statements
2016 Form 990 Public Disclosure Copy

2017 Audited Financial Statements
2017 Form 990 Public Disclosure Copy

2018 Audited Financial Statements
2018 Form 990 Public Disclosure Copy

2019 Audited Financial Statements
2019 Form 990 Public Disclosure Copy

2020 Audited Financial Statements
2020 Form 990 Public Disclosure Copy