Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE
THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,018 to it, the largest being RICHARD D SHIRK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Charles Koch Instituteshared fundersportfolio match
- Holman Foundation Incshared funders
- Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Heritage Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE’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
THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Charles Koch Instituteshared fundersportfolio matchVA · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Holman Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Journalism Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Constitutional Governmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Investigative Journalism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Look Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glacs Endowment Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pro Publica Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solutions Journalism Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Groundtruth Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schumann Media Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- The Heritage Foundation · exempt
- Heritage Action for America · exempt
- The Heritage Institute · exempt
- The Daily Signal Media Group Inc · corp_trust
- American Dream Broadcasting Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE?
- THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,018 to it, the largest being RICHARD D SHIRK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $51,018 in grants to THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE?
- RICHARD D SHIRK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing