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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by AMERICAN LITERARY TRANSLATORS ASSN.

Totals

Total revenue
$416,589
Total expenses
$385,185
Contributions and grants received
$352,356
Grants paid
$51,423
Program service revenue
$59,210
Investment income
$5,023
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$875,012
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$875,012
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$347,540
Management and general expenses
$22,105
Fundraising expenses
$15,540
Program service expenses (Part III)
$347,540

Program services were 90.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $0

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $78,200

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $0

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $0

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $49,710

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $224,446

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $59,628

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Advertising-Online

    total $2,875 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Award Submission Fees

    total $15,370 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Conference-Booths/Tables/Ads

    total $17,450 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Conference-Registration Fees

    total $16,219 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2e · Program service revenue: Workshop Fees

    total $7,296 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $5,023 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0 · program services $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $33,000 · program services $33,000

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $18,423 · program services $18,423

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $62,673 · program services $53,899 · management and general $5,014 · fundraising $3,760

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $97,959 · program services $84,244 · management and general $7,837 · fundraising $5,878

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $3,673 · program services $3,159 · management and general $294 · fundraising $220

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $15,275 · program services $13,137 · management and general $1,222 · fundraising $916

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $10,077 · program services $8,434 · management and general $939 · fundraising $704

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $1,668 · program services $1,435 · management and general $133 · fundraising $100

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $84,505 · program services $77,907 · management and general $3,770 · fundraising $2,828

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,200 · program services $1,700 · management and general $500 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $834 · program services $733 · management and general $101 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $9,600 · program services $8,256 · management and general $768 · fundraising $576

  • 17 · Travel

    total $2,357 · program services $2,307 · management and general $50 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $18,905 · program services $18,905 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $3,322 · program services $2,857 · management and general $266 · fundraising $199

  • 24a · Other expenses: Dues and Subscriptions

    total $8,705 · program services $8,705 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Licenses and Permits

    total $10 · program services $10 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Merchant/Bank Charges

    total $11,454 · program services $9,884 · management and general $1,211 · fundraising $359

  • 24d · Other expenses: Printing/Duplicating/Signage

    total $545 · program services $545 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $162,039 · end of year $177,036

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $54,620 · end of year $56,677

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $597,551 · end of year $641,299

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $0

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $24,710 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $789,500 · end of year $875,012

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

To support the work of literary translators, advance the art of literary translation, serve translators, and the students, teachers, publishers,and readers of literature in translation.

  • Conference : ALTA's annual conference is the largest gathering of literary translators in the U.S., and the only one of its kind. It brings together between 500-650 translators, writers, and editors for an intimate, intense, three-day conversation through panels, workshops, roundtables, and bilingual readings. The ALTA conference is structured around the creation of high-quality art. Panels focus on important issues and trends in the field, while roundtables are structured to provide practical information to working translators, like funding and publication advice. Workshops deal with issues of craft, with participants working through solutions on the spot. Readings are performances in their own right, and many are held in partnership with local arts organizations, thus facilitating interaction with the local community, and engagement with diverse and excellent art. Conference held virtually (April 26 -November 10, 2022).

    Expenses $25,337 · Revenue $81,632

  • Mentorships : ALTA's Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. Since its inception in 2015, the program has supported 54 translators working from 18 languages, including Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Indonesian, Isan, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Tamil. The Mentorship Program allows an emerging translator(someone who has published no more than one full-length work of translation) to begin a career as a literary translator with a more seasoned translator by their side, as they create a literary translation of high caliber. In 2023, the program supported 8 translators.

    Expenses $42,616 · Grants $25,500 · Revenue $45,624

  • Awards : ALTA awards five major prizes at the annual conference: the National Translation Award in Poetry and Prose, for an exceptional book of translated literature published within the previous year; the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, for an outstanding work of Asian literature published within the previous year; the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), for an exceptional work of Italian prose in English translation. We also offer the ALTA Travel Fellowships for emerging translators to attend the annual conference, including the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship for an emerging translator of color or a translator working from an underrepresented diaspora or stateless language. -5 awards bestowed, 10 Travel Fellowships bestowed -A total of $26,000 in funds given to translators: (National Translation Award in Poetry: $2,500; National Translation Award in Prose: $2,500; Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize: $6,000; Italian Prose in Translation Award: $5,000; Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award: $5,000; Travel Fellowships: 10 x $500)

    Expenses $37,129 · Grants $25,923 · Revenue $41,917

  • To support the work of literary translators, advance the art of literary translation, serve translators, and the students, teachers, publishers, and readers of literature in translation.

    Expenses $242,458 · Revenue $247,417

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Elisabeth Jaquette

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $62,673
    From this org
    $62,673
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ellen Elias-Bursac

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Chenxin Jiang

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Patrick Blaine

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Samantha Schnee

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sean Bye

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Naomi Carlson

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bonnie Chau

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aviya Kushner

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Colleen Lucey

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Margo Pave

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Corine Tachtiris

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Umair Kazi

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bruna Dantas Lobato

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Geoffrey Brock

    At-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
12 August 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202431349349306093

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