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THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,172,571 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($3,652,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.5M
Funders on record
81
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$4.4M
42/81 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What The Daily Caller News Foundation does

Mission

Formed with a mission to train up-and-coming reporters and editors, to carry out investigative reporting, and to perform deep policy reporting with a purpose of consumer awareness and education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fellows (american journalism institute): our fellowship program trains young reporters and editors through a two-year on the job training program.

    $1,873,658 spent
    62% of program spending

  2. Investigative group: we host an experienced team of investigative journalists with a strong record of breaking original news stories.

    $806,570 spent
    27% of program spending

  3. Commmentary: our policy reporting team reports on numerous domestic and foreign policy matters including energy, education, online video journalism , and national security.

    $208,510 spent
    7% of program spending

  4. Events: we host an annual awards dinner for our journalists and special guests.

    $116,019 spent
    4% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,004,757.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 91 ($2.3M) Expenses 106 ($2.7M) Net assets 73 ($878k)2019 Revenue 98 ($2.5M) Expenses 99 ($2.5M) Net assets 76 ($918k)2020 Revenue 62 ($1.6M) Expenses 71 ($1.8M) Net assets 58 ($699k)2021 Revenue 112 ($2.9M) Expenses 58 ($1.4M) Net assets 177 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 124 ($3.2M) Expenses 81 ($2.0M) Net assets 283 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 147 ($3.8M) Expenses 130 ($3.2M) Net assets 327 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 175 ($4.5M) Expenses 163 ($4.1M) Net assets 367 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (163)Net assets (367)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.6M (+113%).

$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$2.6M
$3.5M
$4.0M
$4.5M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

101% of THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’17
−$328k
’18
$39k
’19
−$193k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$1.2M
’22
$502k
’23
$401k
’24
8.7
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.

Board chair

Neil Patel

Chairman & co-founder

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed778866710
Joined·+2+2+2+0+1+1+3
No longer listed·2122100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.8M.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
6
5
7
16
19
32
50
42
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12 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 funders by total. 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

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

44% 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 THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION.

26%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 83% · 2019 38% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 39% · 2023 25% — 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

70% of THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
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AZ
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TN
NC
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FL

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve8.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION

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 Washington, D.C.

The Daily Signal Institute81%The News Literacy Project Inc79%Democracy Forward79%Democracy Forward Foundation79%National Taxpayers Union Foundation78%American Journalism Project Inc78%Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation78%New America Foundation78%

Nationally

Deep South Today83%The Associated Press Foundation for Journalism Inc82%The Daily Signal Institute81%States Newsroom81%Springfield Daily Citizen Inc80%New York Focus Inc80%The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc80%The News Literacy Project Inc79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 10%Fundraising 16%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: 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 THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION?
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,172,571 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($3,652,500). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $14,172,571 in grants to THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION?
Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,652,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 81 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