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DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA

DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,746,225 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,597,975). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$5.9M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$6.7M
Net assets
$-5060314
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%
01What it does

What Dallas Express Media does

Mission

To provide unbiased, non-partisan news coverage for the city and county of Dallas.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dallas Express Media is a general interest daily news source covering events, activities and citizens of the city of dallas and dallas county. The organization was created to fill a void in the dallas metroplex communities for fact-based, non-opinion news. In 2024, the publication built out a team of talented professional journalists and shifted towards a greater focus on original reporting.

    $2,662,583 spentof which $110 as grants$21,159 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,662,583.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($330k) Expenses 100 ($838k)2022 Revenue 160 ($530k) Expenses 365 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 142 ($468k) Expenses 517 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 1800 ($5.9M) Expenses 487 ($4.1M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (1800)Expenses (487)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $117k to $410k (+251%).

$117k
$410k
$262k
$222k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$508k
’21
−$2.5M
’22
−$3.9M
’23
$1.9M
’24
0.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Chris Putnam

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

2021202220232024
Listed3474
Joined·+2+4+1
No longer listed·114
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $195k → $232k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA’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.

How concentrated its funding is

DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA.

83%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 51% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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

100% of DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Texas funders.

NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)162% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 30%Fundraising 5%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Dallas Bright Futures · exempt
  • Dallas Education Collective · exempt
  • Texans Foundation for Education · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA: 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 DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA?
DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,746,225 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,597,975). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $6,746,225 in grants to DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,597,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DALLAS EXPRESS MEDIA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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