Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION
DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION (Delaware) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,122,329 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,229,971). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $102k
What Delaware Public Media Corporation does
Mission
To make a substantial contribution to delaware's journalism community and to the citizens of delaware by delivering original, in-depth, delaware-specific news and commentary from all three counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Delaware first media created and launched dfm news, a nonprofit public media news organization that provides statewide coverage of news and commentary, online and via public radio, as well as public-service programing and events. Dfm news programming is accessible to and designed to benefit all delawareans.
$757,143 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $757,143.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $490k to $281k (−43%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 25% · 2019 31% · 2020 34% · 2021 39% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% · 2024 41% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Randy Farmer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $95k → $461k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION’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
DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 55% · 2020 66% · 2021 88% · 2022 50% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $342k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $569k on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$539k
- GRANTS$25k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION: 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 DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION?
- DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION (Delaware) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,122,329 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,229,971). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,122,329 in grants to DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,229,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing