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SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC

SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,205 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$234k
Net assets
$1.3M
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Springfield Daily Citizen Inc does

Mission

The mission of the springfield daily citizen is to inform our community and be a catalyst for good.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The springfield daily citizen is a nonprofit, nonpartisan and independent online news outlet serving the metro area of springfield (mo). The mission is to inform the community and be a catalyst for good. The organization is reinventing local news in metro springfield by telling the stories of our community, bringing issues to light, and encouraging citizen discourse and action. Our journalism is distributed primarily through our website. Subscribers (approx. 3,800 as of 12-31-25) have unlimited access and others can read a limited number of articles for free each month. Guides for voters have been made available for free to all readers. A free email newsletter (with approx. 30,000 users as of 12-31-25) offers summaries of our journalism. In addition, the daily citizen has worked with other local media partners, and with local officials and other nonprofit organizations, to raise greater awareness for major community issues.

    $997,289 spent$290,074 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $997,289.

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 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($160k) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 52 ($1.1M) Expenses 609 ($972k) Net assets 106 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 32 ($713k) Expenses 777 ($1.2M) Net assets 83 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 52 ($1.2M) Expenses 854 ($1.4M) Net assets 72 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 63 ($1.4M) Expenses 998 ($1.6M) Net assets 64 ($1.3M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (63)Expenses (998)Net assets (64)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $1.7M (−23%).

$2.1M
$2.2M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.3M
20212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
’21
$176k
’22
−$527k
’23
−$210k
’24
−$186k
’25
4.4
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

David Stoeffler

CEO

Board chair

Thomas Carlson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2021202220242025
Listed5567
Joined·+0·+1
No longer listed·0·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $103k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC’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

SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

73% 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 SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC.

34%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 80% · 2023 78% — 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

50% of SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC'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 $116k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Missouri funders.

CA
MO
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 19%Fundraising 18%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

55%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC?
SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,205 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $234,205 in grants to SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing