2026-09-23T16:57:20-07:00 2025-12-31 472626541 Cook & Company A Prof Actcy Corporation One Sansome St Ste 3500 San Francisco CA 94104 990 2025-01-01 204504068 Meedan Inc MEED 4154972900 365 Toni Stone Crossing 3rd Floor San Francisco CA 94158 Dima Saber Executive Director 2026-09-23 true Douglas Cook PhDMPACPA P01521705 4156211112 2025 X Dima Saber 365 Toni Stone Crossing 3rd Floor San Francisco CA 94158 6301624 false X http://meedan.org X 2006 CA To strengthen journalism, digital literacy and information accessibility for global communities. 6 4 16 0 3745338 5495370 2896921 768287 58764 39533 -1566 6701023 6301624 980891 983414 0 2195421 1761396 10500 0 194851 3706594 2324691 6893406 5069501 -192383 1232123 4006129 5139438 140400 41586 3865729 5097852 To strengthen journalism, digital literacy and information accessibility for global communities. false false 3441957 447224 598287 Check / 3PFC: In 2025, Meedan continued development of Check, our open source platform for collaborative fact-checking and media analysis. Check powered 58 tiplines serving 143,631 unique users and supported 526,910 conversations between fact-checkers and their audiences in 34 languages and dialects. We also began building Suwali, a new AI-powered conversational tool that helps journalists and civil society organizations serve their communities with their own trusted content, in their own languages. By the end of the year we were testing Suwali with six pilot partners across Egypt, Lebanon, India, and the United States. With our Research program folded into this work, the team also published peer-reviewed research on evaluating AI systems, including a paper that won an Outstanding Paper Award at the Association for Computational Linguistics annual conference. 593495 508665 170000 Community Impact Programs: In 2025, we partnered with 79 media and civil society organizations operating in 57 countries, supporting 2,903 journalists across the Larger World. The work was organized along three verticals: elections, safe and inclusive information ecosystems, and crisis preparedness and response. We distributed funds directly to independent media and civil society partners, including regrants under our fiscal sponsorship of the Alliance for Trust in Media and a Press Forward local news grant to Deep South Today. Our partners also advanced climate justice work in Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Indonesia, helping their communities understand natural disasters and the long-term effects of climate change. 35149 27525 Gendered Disinformation: Building on 2024 collaborative efforts to track gendered disinformation in South Asia and Latin America, in 2025 we supported 11 partner organizations working to counter gender-based violence online. 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For performance and impact reporting we require partners submit qualitative and quantitative reports. Part I, Line 3f - Method of Accounting Amounts are presented on the accrual basis of accounting. Part II, Line 1 - Method of Accounting Amounts are presented on the accrual method of accounting. true Deep South Today 317 E Capitol St Ste 300 Jackson MS 39201 47-2158741 110550 0 local news subgrant 1 0 fiscal sponsor regrant 1 243881 Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used Our organization monitors the use of grant funds in the U.S. through established procedures. These procedures include regular review of financial records to ensure compliance, tracking of expenses to budget, and communication with grantees to address any concerns or questions. We strive to maintain transparency and accountability in our use of grant funds. X X X X false false false false false false false false false Brian Fleming Director of Product 179522 90 1196 364 181172 Dwight Knell COO 155963 54 6371 7753 170141 Edward Bice Chair CEO 157221 363 6999 25496 190079 Saber LLC Ltd Executive Dir. 145241 see part V false Schedule L, Part V Supplemental Information Part IV - Business Transactions with Interested Persons - During 2025, Dima Saber served as a program contractor through her entity, Saber LLC, Ltd. In late 2025, Dima Saber was hired as Meedan's new Executive Director. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b There are no committees authorized to act on behalf of the board of directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Circulated to board, and draft approved before filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c At each contracting event, the Meedan Board of Directors is informed of any potential conflict of interest. If the Board determines there is a conflict of interest it will deliberate on this matter, excluding from deliberations and voting any BOD member participating in this conflicted interest. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a In 2025 the Board established a Compensation Committee (Lea Endres, Leah Wang, and Quinn McKew). For the incoming Executive Director's compensation (effective November 12, 2025), the Committee reviewed independent comparability data an external benchmarking memo and salary surveys recommended the compensation level, and the full Board approved it unanimously by written (email) action on October 10, 2025; the arrangement is set out in a written employment contract. The Board also reviews the top management official's compensation annually using external market data (e.g., Indeed and Glassdoor). Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b All key employees are offered contracts that use Glassdoor or similar job compensation data to determine appropriate compensation. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Form 990 is available for download on Guidestar. Other documents shall be made available upon request.