White House Correspondents' Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520799067
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2022667453
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $606,380
- Expenses
- $447,120
- Assets
- $1,663,138
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WEIJIA JIANG (V-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT)
- JUSTIN SINK (TREASURER/V-PRESIDENT)
- EUGENE DANIELS 1112024-7142025 (PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN THOMMA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- STEVEN THOMMA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $149,337 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
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.
What it reported doing in 2024
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.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.1%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $475.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.72; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.1% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $304K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.