New Public Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 923173452
IRS 990 coverage: 2024–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
Location: Oakland, CA, USA
Phone: 5102138161
Rating: 66
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Science and Technology N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $9,839,509
Expenses: $6,406,076
Assets: $8,657,746
Liabilities: $493,404

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Highest reported compensation

ELIJAH PARISER (CO-DIRECTOR): $320,331 total reported compensation
DEEPTI DOSHI (CO-DIRECTOR): $307,852 total reported compensation
ELIZABETH LUNA (COO): $237,462 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization's mission is to ensure that every community has a healthy digital public space by helping local communities across america create more flourishing digital spaces and developing prototypes for digital conversation with public service media organizations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Public spaces incubator (psi) is an international consortium of public service media organizations representing over 80 million monthly users across five countries collaborating with new_ public to design tools and practices for healthier online dialogue. In fy25, psi welcomed german broadcaster ard and deepened cbc/radio-canada's participation, added open-source contributors, and expanded tools for moderation, audience participation, and editorial workflows. Psi's influence helped establish public conversation as a core legal responsibility of public service media in germany.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 61
Transparency & Controls: 54
Accountability: 88
Sustainability: 60
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 48.9%; rating input score 49
Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
Fundraising efficiency: $51.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

Operating margin: 34.9%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 29.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 40.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 78.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 93.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 48.9% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.8M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $320K · 13 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $352K reported
Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.