2023-09-27T11:57:28-04:00 2022-12-31 474306215 Mullins PC 7625 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda MD 20814 990 2022-01-01 844826419 Civil Eats CIVI 101 Middlesex Tpke STE 6 Burlington MA 018034914 Naomi Starkman CEO President 9175393924 2023-09-27 true Naomi Starkman John Mullins P01429307 2027706371 2023-09-27 0 00 AAL1 IAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X 720884 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. 4 4 8 0 0 569757 712591 4050 4950 632 0 3343 574439 720884 0 0 373036 523088 0 97389 274499 280607 647535 803695 -73096 -82811 1374676 1289484 10000 7619 1364676 1281865 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 587610 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 years of reporting experience have shown that complicated and often underreported stories on climate change, 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. Now, almost 15 years later, 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 James Beard Foundation, inducted into the Library of Congress in 2019, and won the IACP Digital Media Award for Best Group Food Blog in 2020, all with very limited resources. Founder and editor-in-chief Naomi Starkman was a 2016 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and was named 2021 Journalist of the Year by Hunter College. 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 round-ups, and are shared on social media by elected officials. In 2022, Civil Eats published 200 articles with more than 80 reporters, and was nominated for and received numerous awards. The article, Craft Beer Faces a Gender and Race Reckoning, received the Best Commentary award from the North American Guild of Beer Writers. Civil Eats also received a digital media award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals for best newsletter or its monthly members content The Deep Dish. Senior Editor Twilight Greenaway won an SPJ NorCal Honors 2022 Excellence in Journalism Award for reporting on climate change in her Op-ed: The Flood of Climate Disasters Has the Food System Reeling. Its Time to Act. Civil Eats launched an investigative desk in 2022, and hired an investigations editor to lead a team of reporters who have produced award-winning work to date. The site published stories related to toxic waste and mining in farm communities, investment markets for Colorado River water, and union-busting by Kimbal Musks vertical gardening company (which has since closed). Investigative stories have attracted tens of thousands of readers, been named story of the week by the Institute for Nonprofit News, and attracted new funders like the Gumshoe Group and the Earth Journalism Network. As part of the desk, Civil Eats launched Injured and Invisible, a five-part investigation that deeply reported on an often unprotected, unseen workforce. The response to the series has been overwhelmingly positive, and the stories have been shared thousands of times. We partnered with Energy News Network and Gatopardo, a Mexican monthly news magazine, to publish a Spanish-language version of one story. The first story in the series was named an Aspen Institute Best Idea of the Day. In 2023, this series was awarded a James Beard Foundation Media Award for excellence in investigative reporting. As the desk develops, weve offered new opportunities to freelance writers, photographers, fact-checkers, and illustrators at competitive rates of pay. Weve also been able to hire internationally, hiring bicultural, multilingual reporters and photographers who increase our cultural competency in areas where our current network hasnt yet reached. Meanwhile, the desk has created new opportunities for in-house writers to pursue complex projects on their own beats, garner funding and editorial support for their work, and develop investigative and narrative writing skills. Weve also developed a new relationship with the pro-bono legal program ProJourn and deepened our relationship with key sources who offered their ideas in early stages of the desks development. 587610 true true 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 false true 55 0 true 8 true false false false false false false false false false false false false X 4 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 101 Middlesex Tpke Suite 6 Burlington MA 018034914 Naomi Starkman CEO President of the Board 40.00 0.00 X 98337 0 7691 Emilio Garcia-Ruiz Member 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Christine Schantz Secretary 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 98337 0 7691 0 false false false 712591 712591 Program Revenue 900099 4950 4950 4950 Other 900099 3343 3343 3343 720884 8293 0 0 X 98337 76702 9834 11801 370906 289308 37089 44509 6248 4873 625 750 8810 6872 881 1057 38787 30254 3879 4654 10089 10089 34155 34155 173670 158367 2803 12500 14190 9177 13 5000 36149 10888 8143 17118 1491 1169 322 5067 5067 5796 5796 803695 587610 118696 97389 401310 149742 725707 1014000 217250 101500 9797 8697 25335 9790 20612 15545 1374676 1289484 10000 7619 10000 7619 X 1133426 1151865 231250 130000 1364676 1281865 1374676 1289484 -82811 0 X false true X true false X 1964722 569757 760131 3294610 1964722 569757 760131 3294610 726734 2567876 632 632 3295242 13150 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 25335 9790 15545 15545 X 768424 47540 47540 720884 720884 851235 47540 47540 803695 803695 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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