Totals
- Total revenue
- $166,589
- Total expenses
- $155,013
- Contributions and grants received
- $166,589
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $0
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $63,644
- Total liabilities, end of year
- not reported
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $63,644
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $108,150
Program services were 69.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
Elevate and foster opportunities for writers and creatives. More information in Schedule O
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The Writing Downtown writers residency in Las Vegas for fiction nonfiction poets and screenwriters which includes a public performance element from select residentseach year usually entails 12 writers and 200 attendance members for all events.
Expenses $30,000 · Grants $16,500
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Wikipedia work: taking photos and improving articles for notable people and works including writers at events like National Book Awards AWP and Jaipur Literature Festival; stories published in Best American Short Stories and literary prize finalists honorees. Over 500 creatives benefited.
Expenses $38,500 · Grants $35,000
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Fiscal sponsorship for film projects by writer-directors serving as a lightweight fiscal sponsor for feature films documentaries and shorts. Beneficiaries: 2 projects but 25 people are eventually paid or benefit from various sources.
Expenses $39,650 · Grants $40,000
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Jennifer 8 Lee
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Christopher Thorpe
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Latoya Peterson
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 18 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.1
- Source object
- 202513229349201601
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