In 2024, Recorder edited, an 80% increase in revenues compared to 2023. Grants, the editorial shows, have only 4% of the budget.
The Non Profit Recorder journalistic project published the report for the eighth year of existence. The total revenues of 2024 are 2,380,826 euros, compared to 1,325,812 euros in 2023, which means an additional 80% from year to year.
It is an annual transparency exercise that the Recorder project makes.
90% come from public contributions
“For the hundreds of comments that appear on social networks on each material we publish – “You are sold, you gave yourself the system!” – We have the same answer: our financing sources have always been in sight for anyone who wanted to find out, “wrote in the annual report Cristian Delcea and Mihai Voinea, the two leaders of Recorder.
Founded in 2017 by journalists Cristian Delcea, Mihai Voinea, Andrei Crăciun and Răzvan Ionescu, Recorder had revenues of 56,000 euros from readers. In 2024, the amount reached 2.38 million euros.
According to the successive reports of Recorder, in the last five years the revenues, most of them from the public, have evolved as follows:
- 2020: 400,000 euros
- 2021: 850,000 euros
- 2022: 1.105,602 euros
- 2023: 1,325,000 euros
- 2024: 2,380,826 euros
In the first reports, Recorder was talking about 80% of the revenues directly from the readers' contributions, now the share has reached 90%.
“To be able to criticize everyone”
“Recorder is financed primarily from the direct contributions of the public. There are tens of thousands of people who pay modest amounts or complement the form 230 so that we can do our job as we think appropriate, free of any influence or pressure. He could criticize everyone, ”the journalists wrote in the report to the public.
The report also presents the journalistic achievements. “Dissatisfaction will always exist, and we also felt them when I wrote about Nicușor Dan's campaign, and when we showed the youthful or Călin Georgescu's youthfuls.”
“We produced a two -hour documentary about the” Iohannis decade “, to better understand what happened to Romania in the last ten years. I wrote about what it is like to be a woman in politics in Romania, I disassembled the myth of the Hero from Nassiriya, I wrote about the new era of scams on the Internet, I revealed little known things from the biography of the politician who drove the Romanian government in recent years, I devolled the Nordis scheme – an investigation that has exceeded 3 million visualizations and which produced a Romanian political.
Grants represent 4% of the amount
In 2024, the revenues were 2.38 million euros and the expenses of 1.29 million euros. In non -profit organizations, the difference between income and expenses during a fiscal year is constituted as a reserve for the subsequent activity, it is not distributed.
According to the report by categories, Recior Revenue came from:
- 1.108,044 euros – Redirection 3.5% natural persons
- 702,310 euros – donations natural persons (Braintree, PayPal, direct account, Patreon, SMS, Benevity, Pago, YouTube Membership)
- 290,480 euros – redirecting 20% legal entities
- 92.144 euros – Grants (Active Citizens Fund, Media Development Investment Fund, Prague Civil Society, Adobe)*
- 74,511 Euro – YouTube Advertising
Grants represent 4% of the amount tight. “Because at the last report various interpretations were made on account of the income generated from the grants, we consider it useful to detail the exact sources of financing of each grant mentioned in the table above,” explained Recorder. Grants are: “Active Citizens Fund – Finance from the states of Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein; MDIF – Financing from the Amplify Europe program, which is fully funded by grants from the Postal lotteries in the Netherlands and Germany; Prague Civil Society – financing from USAID, US Government Agency; Adobe “.
