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DAILY SIGNAL INSTITUTE

EIN 99-2370652 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$3,598,549
Expenses 2024
$1,370,524

Program services were 65.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A30
Classification
1200
Street
214 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NE STE 300

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.

  • ROBERT BLUEY

    PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $387,117
    From this org
    $124,883
    From related orgs
    $184,576
    Other
    $77,658
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $124,055 + $124,055 related
    Bonus
    $307 + $60,000 related
    Other
    $521 + $521 related
    Deferred
    $37,776 + $5,390 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,893 + $22,661 related
    Filer's total
    $181,552 + $212,627 related

  • DERRICK MORGAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $649,481
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $545,991
    Other
    $103,490
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $392,424 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $152,307 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,260 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $69,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $43,355 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $658,346 related

  • ERIK TELFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN MILLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACK FOWLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM WEIDMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARRYLE OWENS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ERIC KORSVALL

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $532,761
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $444,117
    Other
    $88,644
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $318,550 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $124,307 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,260 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $54,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $41,859 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $540,476 related

  • JOHN BACKIEL

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $392,073
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $313,985
    Other
    $78,088
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $255,966 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $55,317 related
    Other
    $0 + $2,702 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $43,647 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $41,941 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $399,573 related

  • DAN MAULER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $418,837
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $374,337
    Other
    $44,500
    Hours/week
    1 + 39 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $313,344 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $60,307 related
    Other
    $0 + $686 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $44,500 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $4,663 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $423,500 related

  • BRIAN GOTTSTEIN

    SR EDITOR & WRITING ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $221,716
    From this org
    $89,464
    From related orgs
    $87,160
    Other
    $45,092
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $86,325 + $86,325 related
    Bonus
    $2,304
    Other
    $835 + $835 related
    Deferred
    $9,893 + $3,851 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,482 + $22,463 related
    Filer's total
    $117,839 + $113,474 related

  • KATRINA TRINKO

    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

    Total calculated
    $197,447
    From this org
    $75,914
    From related orgs
    $92,590
    Other
    $28,943
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $75,432 + $75,433 related
    Bonus
    $325 + $17,000 related
    Other
    $157 + $157 related
    Deferred
    $11,255 + $3,140 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,542 + $10,790 related
    Filer's total
    $95,711 + $106,520 related

  • FRED LUCAS

    SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER

    Total calculated
    $170,590
    From this org
    $63,530
    From related orgs
    $63,205
    Other
    $43,855
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $63,009 + $63,009 related
    Bonus
    $325
    Other
    $196 + $196 related
    Deferred
    $7,033 + $2,766 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,413 + $17,886 related
    Filer's total
    $87,976 + $83,857 related

  • TYLER O'NEIL

    SR EDITOR & MARILYN & FRED G. FELLOW

    Total calculated
    $157,103
    From this org
    $59,283
    From related orgs
    $58,957
    Other
    $38,863
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $58,843 + $58,842 related
    Bonus
    $325
    Other
    $115 + $115 related
    Deferred
    $4,338 + $2,577 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,628 + $23,368 related
    Filer's total
    $83,249 + $84,902 related

  • KENNETH MCINTYRE

    SR EDITOR

    Total calculated
    $160,082
    From this org
    $56,660
    From related orgs
    $56,336
    Other
    $47,086
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $54,870 + $54,871 related
    Bonus
    $325
    Other
    $1,465 + $1,465 related
    Deferred
    $10,357 + $2,559 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,434 + $18,094 related
    Filer's total
    $84,451 + $76,989 related

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
    $3,598,549
    Expenses
    $1,370,524
    Contributions
    $3,571,589
    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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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.