- Revenue 2024
- $2,704,734
- Expenses 2024
- $2,493,355
Program services were 70.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- W99
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 3008 E ROSEDALE ST
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).
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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BILL MEADOWS
PRESIDENT AND CO-CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
WES TURNER
CO-CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
JOHN LUMPKIN
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MARIANNE AULD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JONATHAN MORRIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RACHEL NAVEJAR PHILLIPS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MITCH WHITTEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MELISSA RANKIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
NEILS AGATHER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
PAUL GREENWELL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID PORTER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHRIS COBLER
CEO, PUBLISHER
- Total calculated
- $152,000
- From this org
- $152,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $142,000
- Bonus
- $10,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $152,000
-
MIKE DISTELHORST
GENERAL MANAGER & CRO
- Total calculated
- $120,000
- From this org
- $120,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $2,704,734
- Expenses
- $2,493,355
- Contributions
- $2,394,512
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,848,949
- Expenses
- $2,089,141
- Contributions
- $1,665,324
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $2,391,450
- Expenses
- $1,561,944
- Contributions
- $2,374,961
- 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.
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
-
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC
$596,384
2024 TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY REVENUE AND TO ADVANCE TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR LOCAL NEWS.
-
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC
$261,114
2023 TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY REVENUE AND TO ADVANCE TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR LOCAL NEWS.
-
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC
$225,000
2022 TO GROW AND DIVERSIFY REVENUE AND TO ADVANCE TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR LOCAL NEWS.
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 REVENUE GROWTH FELLOWSHIP, LION AWARDS PRIZES
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$50,000
2022 NEWS COVERAGE
-
$50,000
2024 STORIES OF HONOR
-
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
$43,899
2024 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
-
$38,462
2024 PARTNER NEWSROOM SUPPORT
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 10 September 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.