Nonprofit · EIN 20-4504068
MEEDAN INC
Tax-exempt · SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $6,301,624 | $5,069,501 | $1,232,123 | $5,139,438 | $41,586 | $5,097,852 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $6,701,023 | $6,893,406 | -$192,383 | $4,006,129 | $140,400 | $3,865,729 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $7,679,114 | $6,876,283 | $802,831 | $4,739,525 | $681,413 | $4,058,112 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $5,495,370
- Program service revenue
- $768,287
- Investment income
- $39,533
- Other revenue
- -$1,566
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $983,414
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $571,303
- Other salaries and wages
- $867,517
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $1,761,396
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $16,222
- Accounting fees
- $185,822
- Occupancy
- $40,015
- Travel
- $55,574
- Depreciation
- $5,194
- Program services (functional)
- $4,070,601
- Management and general (functional)
- $804,049
- Fundraising (functional)
- $194,851
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $4,006,129
- Total assets, end of year
- $5,139,438
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $41,586
- Net assets, end of year
- $5,097,852
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $3,344
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $1,523,107
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $3,574,745
- Gross receipts
- $6,301,624
- Employees
- 16
- Year formed
- 2006
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Bice Chair | CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $157,584 | $32,495 |
| Brian Fleming | Director of Product | 40 | $179,612 | $1,560 |
| Dwight Knell | COO Officer | 40 | $156,017 | $14,124 |
| Megan Marrelli | Director Editorial | 40 | $123,808 | $14,958 |
| Martin Peck | Lead Systems Eng. | 40 | $114,336 | $18,891 |
| Dima Saber | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $27,914 | $0 |
| Jon Corshen | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Owono | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Maria Ressa | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lea Endres | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Leah Wang | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Quinn McKew | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 16 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Bice Chair | CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $170,948 | $95,029 |
| Brian Fleming | Dir. of Product | 40 | $152,333 | $24,292 |
| Dwight Knell | COO Officer | 40 | $146,450 | $20,248 |
| Ashkan Kazemi | Research Scientist | 40 | $145,553 | $16,199 |
| Doci Mou | Sr Infrastr Eng | 40 | $130,006 | $23,972 |
| Devin Gaffney | Machine Lrng Eng | 40 | $105,425 | $43,600 |
| Megan Marrelli | Editorial Director | 40 | $117,033 | $0 |
| Jon Corshen | Treasurer Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Hanan Heakal | Secretary Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Zeynep Tufekci | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Hwang | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Maria Ressa | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Julie Owono | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Lea Endres | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Leah Wang | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Quinn McKew | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 12 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Bice Chair | CEO Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $170,948 | $39,974 |
| Brian Fleming | Senior UX Designer | 40 | $150,583 | $23,874 |
| Pierre Forcioli-Conti | Direct. of Product | 40 | $171,682 | $1,417 |
| Aaron Huslage | Dir Syst. Sec Eng | 40 | $143,228 | $16,887 |
| Dwight Knell Operations | Director Officer | 40 | $143,362 | $14,255 |
| Devin Gaffney | Machine Lrng Eng | 40 | $125,891 | $29,305 |
| Doci Mou | Sr Infrastr Eng | 40 | $114,789 | $29,125 |
| John Corshen | Treasurer Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Hanan Heakal | Secretary Trustee or director | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Zeynep Tufekci | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Tim Hwang | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Maria Ressa | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 365 TONI STONE CROSSING 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158-2601
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- Dima Saber, 365 Toni Stone Crossing 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Signed the 990
- Dima Saber, Executive Director
- Phone
- (415) 497-2900
- Website
- http://meedan.org
- Return prepared by
- Cook & Company A Prof Actcy Corporation
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 20-4504068 or by the name MEEDAN INC.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
To strengthen journalism, digital literacy and information accessibility for global communities.
Program accomplishments
- 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.Expenses $3,441,957 · grants $447,224 · revenue $598,287
- 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.Expenses $593,495 · grants $508,665 · revenue $170,000
- 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. These partners include feminist groups, civil society organizations, and digital safety experts who document gendered disinformation, develop counter-strategies, and adapt technology to meet these challenges at the regional and global level.Expenses $35,149 · grants $27,525
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 20-4504068
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2007
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Science and technology (U41)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $5,139,438
- Income (IRS master file)
- $6,301,624
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $6,301,624 | $5,069,501 | $5,139,438 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $6,701,023 | $6,893,406 | $4,006,129 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2023 | $7,679,114 | $6,876,283 | $4,739,525 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $5,777,533 | $5,367,906 | $3,741,345 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2017 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 20-4504068).
Questions about MEEDAN INC
- What is the EIN of MEEDAN INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of MEEDAN INC is 20-4504068.
- Is MEEDAN INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2007.
- Are donations to MEEDAN INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does MEEDAN INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of MEEDAN INC due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did MEEDAN INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of MEEDAN INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Dima Saber.
- Who are the officers and directors of MEEDAN INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 12 people; 6 received compensation from the organization, the highest $157,584 (Edward Bice Chair, CEO).
- How much revenue does MEEDAN INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $6,301,624, expenses of $5,069,501 and total assets of $5,139,438 at year end.
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