Delaware · Nonprofit
Unjournal Inc
Unjournal Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,710 to it, the largest being EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ($40,710). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $62k
What Unjournal Inc does
Mission
The Unjournal commissions and publishes open expert evaluations of quantitative social science research with substantial implications for global priorities providing structured public feedback and ratings to help make research more rigorous and impactful support a more efficient alternative to traditional peer review and help impact-focused funders and policymakers make better-evidenced decisions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Unjournal evaluates quantitative social science research with substantial implications for global priorities including economics global health animal welfare and AI governance helping make research more rigorous providing an efficient alternative to traditional peer review and supporting evidence-driven philanthropy and policy. Field specialists and a management committee prioritize candidate papers and projects; an evaluation manager recruits two or more expertevaluators drawing on our vetted pool of 200-plus researchers most with PhDs approximately half economists while actively seeking specialists whose expertise closely matches the research under evaluation. Evaluators provide detailed peer-review-style assessments with quantitative ratings published openly at unjournal. org and PubPub. By end of 2025 we completed 53 evaluation packages comprising over 100 expert reviews. This process also builds publicly shared guidelines and curated prioritized research resources
$74,336 spent57% of program spendingIn 2025 we made substantial progress on three Pivotal Questions initiatives working directly with organizations including Animal Charity Evaluators GiveWell and Founders Pledge to identify research questions whose answers would most change their grantmaking decisions then commissioning targeted evaluations of the most relevant work. We organized workshops and outreach activities and share resources evaluation guidelines a public ratings dashboard and curated research collections in support of open research and evidence-driven philanthropy and policy.
$40,000 spent31% of program spendingWe are developing qualitative benchmarks comparing AI-generated research assessments against our expert evaluations to understand how closely current AI systems align with human expert judgment on high-stakes research and prioritization questions.
$15,887 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $130,223.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $205k to $62k (−70%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
87% of Unjournal Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Unjournal Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Unjournal Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Unjournal Inc's revenue fell 87% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 107 social science nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Unjournal Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Unjournal Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Unjournal Inc?
- Unjournal Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,710 to it, the largest being EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ($40,710). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Unjournal Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,710 in grants to Unjournal Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Unjournal Inc?
- EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Unjournal Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing