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LITERARY AND PROLOGUE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST

EIN 20-2868229 CHANDLER, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$899,102
Expenses 2024
$602,913

Program services were 84.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
2000
Street
4980 S ALMA SCHOOL RD A2-510

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

CELEBRATE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND AUTHORS, AND PROMOTE THE CAUSE OF LITERACY IN ARIZONA.

  • AUTHOR LUNCHEON PROGRAM THE LITERARY SOCIETY OF THE SOUTHWEST HOSTED TWENTY LUNCHEONS ACROSS FOUR VENUES, FEATURING FIVE ACCLAIMED CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AUTHORS, INCLUDING NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ALICE MCDERMOTT AND POET AND ASU PROFESSOR SOFIA SINCLAIR. THESE LUNCHEONS SUPPORT AND FURTHER OUR MISSION TO CELEBRATE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND FOSTER ENGAGING LITERARY CONVERSATIONS.

    Expenses $510,255 · Grants $135,000 · Revenue $166,430

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Ellen Brown

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Laura Huser

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Mary Jane McCart

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Lorelei Gonzales

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Ann Stanton

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Anne Johnson

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carrie Ostroski

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Chris Chavez

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Elizabeth Saba

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • Jean Nelson

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Mary Beth Herbert

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Genny Matteucci

    Board member until 05/15/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jayne Lewis

    Board member until 03/01/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Michele Feeney

    Board member until 05/15/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $899,102
    Expenses
    $602,913
    Contributions
    $690,983
    Grants paid
    $135,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $843,504
    Expenses
    $519,696
    Contributions
    $653,776
    Grants paid
    $103,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $709,428
    Expenses
    $459,510
    Contributions
    $559,273
    Grants paid
    $56,825

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $428,794
    Expenses
    $433,654
    Assets (EOY)
    $397,763

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $352,562
    Expenses
    $157,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $401,822

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.