2024-10-28T14:59:52-04:00 2023-12-31 474306215 Mullins PC 7625 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda MD 20814 990 2023-01-01 844826419 Civil Eats CIVI 502 E Cotati Ave STE 7014 Cotati CA 94931 Naomi Starkman CEO President 9175393924 2024-10-28 true true John Mullins P01429307 2027706371 2024-10-28 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X 1288262 false X civileats.com X 2020 CA Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities. 5 4 11 4 0 0 712591 1251678 4950 3250 33334 3343 0 720884 1288262 1213 0 523088 662031 0 101193 280607 291173 803695 954417 -82811 333845 1289484 1628254 7619 12544 1281865 1615710 Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities. false false 719347 1213 3250 Since 2009, Civil Eats, an independent, nonprofit digital news site about the American food system, has focused on high-quality, original journalism which breaks news, educates leaders and policymakers, and serves as a resource for broader mainstream media. Civil Eats brings a clear and compelling voice to a complex range of issues. Our 15 years of reporting experience has shown that complicated and often underreported stories on climate, the environment, social justice, and on policy issues such as health and nutrition, are all made more accessible to a mainstream audience through our nuanced, solutions-oriented reporting. For the first four years, Civil Eats operated with no funding and as a labor of love. Today, Civil Eats has achieved significant impact and reach: It raised an unprecedented $100,000 via Kickstarter in 2013, was named Publication of the Year in 2014 by the prestigious James Beard Foundation, inducted into the Library of Congress in 2019, won the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Digital Media Award for Best Group Food Blog in 2020, won a 2022 IACP Award for best newsletter for our members-only monthly column, The Deep Dish, which also won an Online News Association award for best newsletter in 2024. Civil Eats has reported on some of the most important food and agriculture stories of our time. Unique in the media landscape, food justice has been central to its reporting since its inception. Civil Eats collaborates with high-profile print and online publications, and these partnerships bring Civil Eats important stories to millions of new readers, expanding the dialogue on economic and social justice. The site is on the regular reading lists of policymakers in D.C. and grassroots leaders alike, and its stories appear in daily news roundups, and are shared on social media by elected officials. In 2023, Civil Eats published 200 articles with more than 80 reporters and was nominated for and received numerous awards. In 2023, Civil Eats was awarded and/or named a finalist for more than a dozen awards and accolades. For the second year in a row, Civil Eats was named a Micro Newsroom Finalist by the Online News Association for the Online Journalism Awards, the global prizes that honor excellence in digital journalism. Civil Eats launched an investigations desk in 2022, and has won and been nominated for many awards for the stories reported on since then, including a 2023 James Beard Foundation Media Award for excellence in investigative reporting for the 2022 investigation series on animal agriculture workers, Injured and Invisible. In 2023, Civil Eats undertook a year-long investigative series on Walanthropy: Walmart and the Waltons Wield Unprecedented Influence Over Food, Policy, and the Planet. We took a detailed look at Walmart and its founding familys influence over the American food system, over the producers and policymakers who shape it, and how its would-be critics are also its bedfellows. The investigation was nominated for a 2024 James Beard award excellence in investigative reporting and received numerous other awards. One if its story, Black Farmers in Arkansas Still Seek Justice a Century After the Elaine Massacre, was selected for inclusion in Best American Food Writing 2023, guest edited by Mark Bittman.In 2023, Civil Eats also undertook a year-long transition reorganization, with key staff assuming new duties to allow for continued and sustained growth. The result was a new organization chart in 2024, with additional employees. In addition, new board members have been cultivated. In a fraught media landscape, Civil Eats has withstood the shocks faced by many larger and more deeply funded news oulets. It has stood the test of time, proving itself to be an extremely careful steward of its funding, and a groundbreaking thought-leader in this space. 719347 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 65 0 true 11 true false false false false false false false false false false false false X 5 4 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true false false CA X The Organization 9175393924 502 E Cotati Ave Apt 7014 Cotati CA 94931 Naomi Starkman CEO President of the Board 40.00 0.00 X X 105891 0 10775 Matthew Wheeland Managing Editor 40.00 0.00 X 109890 0 4017 Christine Schantz Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Emilio Garcia-Ruiz Member 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Esther Park Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Will Rosenzweig Chairperson 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 215781 0 14792 2 false false false 91245 1160433 1251678 Program Revenue 900099 3250 3250 3250 33334 33334 1288262 3250 0 33334 X 1213 1213 105891 82595 10589 12707 474127 369819 47413 56895 13716 10698 1372 1646 20935 16329 2094 2512 47362 36942 4736 5684 6226 6226 33398 33398 171074 159461 5872 5741 4308 3798 510 56606 31472 9126 16008 8401 7020 1381 5067 5067 6093 6093 954417 719347 133877 101193 149742 1529282 1014000 75 101500 79374 8697 9045 25335 14857 15545 10478 1289484 1628254 7619 12544 7619 12544 X 1151865 1490699 130000 125011 1281865 1615710 1289484 1628254 333845 0 X false true X true false X 1964722 569757 760131 1251678 4546288 1964722 569757 760131 1251678 4546288 989634 3556654 632 33334 33966 4580254 13150 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 25335 14857 10478 10478 X 1302342 14080 14080 1288262 1288262 968497 14080 14080 954417 954417 Footnote for uncertain tax position under FIN 48 (Part X) Civil Eats is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 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