Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,396 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ($10,446). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $606k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What White House Correspondents' Association does
Mission
The purpose of the association is to promote excellence in journalism and educate the public about the field of journalism and the process of reporting about the white house. Outstanding performance in the field of journalism is acknowledged through academic scholarships and writing awards programs. Further, the association provides a forum for coverage-related issues affecting regular white house correspondents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships for university students in the field of journalism. The association provided or sponsored scholarships to a diverse group of students to help them study journalism and prepare for a career as journalists. It also arranged for members of the white house press corps to serve as one-on-one mentors for the year. The whca provides or sponsors scholarships in partnership with: american university, arizona state university, columbia university, hampton univeristy, howard university, northwestern university, ohio university, uc-berkeley, the university of kansas, the university of missouri, the university of maryland and the university of tennessee. It also co-sponsored scholarships with the asian american jounalists association, the national association of hispanic journalists and the white house historical association.
$140,500 spentof which $140,500 as grants46% of program spendingThe association presents achievement awards to reward and encourage excellence in journalism. The awards recognize significant accomplishments in presidential news coverage over a year, presidential news coverage under deadline pressure, visual journalism, and work of significant national or regional importance.the 2024 awards lauded coverage of president biden, the oct 7 terrorist attack on israel and the impacts of the ar-15. They also honored the journalists rodney batten and edward lewis.
$20,000 spent7% of program spendingThe association provides a forum for coverage-related issues affecting regular white house correspondents, including access to the president, the ability to question the white house staff on a daily basis at the white house briefing room, and work to help the press cover the president on trips outside the white house, as well as outside the city and the country.the association also sponsored a panel of journalists with scholarship students, and a news briefing for students with the white house press secretary.
$143,395 spent47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,895.
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 2019 to 2020, from $682k to $1.5M (+118%).
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.
87% of WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Steven Thomma
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — 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
63% of WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION: 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 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION?
- WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,396 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ($10,446). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $31,396 in grants to WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,446 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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