Jacobin
Jacobin is operated by Jacobin Foundation Ltd., a New York 501(c)(3) nonprofit rather than an equity-owned magazine company. Its 2024 Form 990 identifies Bhaskar Sunkara as president, lists officers and directors, and reports that program-service revenue and contributions fund the organization.
Nonprofit status removes conventional shareholders, not financial incentives. Subscriptions, product sales, donations and the board remain the relevant structural relationships.
From screen to controller
Do not trust the diagram.
Open the proof.
Primary means the company, regulator, court, filing, or outlet made the disclosure directly. Partial records show exactly which link is documented and which link is still unresolved.
Proves: Jacobin identifies Jacobin Foundation Ltd. as the New York not-for-profit corporation operating the magazine.
Does not prove: This record establishes the stated corporate or institutional fact. It does not establish editorial causation beyond that disclosure.
Proves: The filed return identifies the nonprofit, EIN, officers, directors, revenue categories, expenses, assets and liabilities.
Does not prove: This record establishes the stated corporate or institutional fact. It does not establish editorial causation beyond that disclosure.
Proves: Jacobin states that donations to Jacobin Foundation are tax deductible under section 501(c)(3).
Does not prove: This record establishes the stated corporate or institutional fact. It does not establish editorial causation beyond that disclosure.
How the outlet earns
What else sits nearby
The nonprofit operates or supports related ideological publications and products.
The 2024 filing shows earned program revenue is the organization's largest revenue category.
What the records do not settle
These are research targets, not insinuations. A missing disclosure stays missing until a primary record answers it.
- 01Which parts of this ownership structure overlap with subjects the newsroom covers?
- 02What formal safeguards separate ownership and business operations from editorial decisions?
What Gen Us observed
This is a sample of analyzed stories, not a permanent rating of every article the outlet publishes.
Ownership is evidence of control structure, not proof of editorial causation.
To claim that an owner changed coverage, Gen Us requires separate evidence tied to a decision, communication, policy, or documented intervention. That distinction is the point of this database.