Funding and supporters
The Overseen is a nonprofit. This page lists where our money came from in 2025 and every supporter who gave $5,000 or more.
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Charitable foundations | $1,977,800 | 58% |
| Members and individual donors | $920,700 | 27% |
| Events, licensing and sponsorship | $511,500 | 15% |
| Total | $3,410,000 | 100% |
We spent $3,270,000 in 2025: 74 percent on the newsroom, 15 percent on fundraising and 11 percent on administration. Our audited accounts for 2025 will be published here when the audit is complete.
Supporters who gave $5,000 or more in 2025
$100,000 and more
- Tamsworth Civic Information Fund
- Pellingham Trust for Open Records
$25,000 to $99,999
- Okafor-Lindgren Family Foundation
- Harrowgate Press Fund
- Two anonymous individual donors
$5,000 to $24,999
- Eleven individual donors, seven of whom asked not to be named
Partner content
We publish partner content under the rules set out in our editors’ note of February 2026.
| Year | Partner | Posts | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Tellwright Systems, Inc. | 2 | $150,000 |
Questions about our finances can go to hello@theoverseen.org.