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DELAWARE FIRST MEDIA CORPORATION

EIN 27-0552599 DOVER, DE

Largest nonprofits in Delaware

Revenue 2023
$1,016,156
Expenses 2023
$1,226,624

Program services were 59.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A34
Classification
1000
Street
1200 N DUPONT HWY

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

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.

  • 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.

    Expenses $731,840

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Pete Booker

    GENERAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $75,000
    From this org
    $75,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Brond

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Randy Farmer

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Drewry Fennell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • James D Griffin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Nancy Karibjanian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Leslie Newman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ellen J Roberts

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Michael Sigman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Robert Varipapa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Chanta Howard Wilkinson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ellen C Wolf

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,016,156
    Expenses
    $1,226,624
    Contributions
    $978,796
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,183,102
    Expenses
    $1,091,676
    Contributions
    $1,174,132
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $885,007
    Expenses
    $902,044
    Assets (EOY)
    $420,310

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,005,772
    Expenses
    $789,310
    Assets (EOY)
    $374,782

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $939,930
    Expenses
    $778,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,139

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $638,095
    Expenses
    $674,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,900

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $630,927
    Expenses
    $633,426
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,560

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $576,282
    Expenses
    $562,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,466

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,792
    Expenses
    $518,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $228,610

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $754,399
    Expenses
    $763,812
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,637

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $711,336
    Expenses
    $782,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $304,335

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $752,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $143,917

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.