Invisible Children, the nonprofit organization best known for its KONY 2012 campaign (and the ensuing backlash), will close its San Diego, California, headquarters and reduce its staff of about 22 U.S. employees to five remote workers this month — the organization’s first step in a plan to cease operations by the end of next year.

“It’s the end of Invisible Children as most people know it,” said CEO Ben Keesey in a phone interview this weekend.

In 2015, Invisible Children — formed in 2004 to raise awareness about central African warlord Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) — will no longer produce the short films or youth-driven events it’s become known for, Keesey said. It will operate only in the U.S. through political advocacy, lobbying Congressional support for ongoing anti-LRA investments. (One of the five remaining staff members will manage a group of volunteers to this end.) Meanwhile, key programs operated in Africa will go through a “12-month handover process.”