- Revenue 2024
- $4,683,825
- Expenses 2024
- $4,079,438
Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B99
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 501 SANTA MONICA BLVD STE 701
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
THE MISSION OF THE SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE IS TO BRING TOGETHER READERS AND WRITERS TO CELEBRATE IDEAS AT AN ANNUAL EVENT ANCHORED BY RECOGNIZED WRITERS OF FICTION AND NONFICTION.
Activities or mission (Part I)
LITERARY AND PUBLIC EDUCATION
-
PRESENTATION OF WRITERS' CONFERENCES TO THE PUBLIC HAS EXPOSED PEOPLE TO ESTABLISHED WRITERS, PROVIDED ASSISTANCE TO POTENTIAL WRITERS AND HAS EXPANDED APPRECIATION FOR THE LITERARY WORLD.
Expenses $3,333,470 · Revenue $1,050,989
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.
-
Robin R EidsmoROBIN R EIDSMO
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Liaquat AhamedLIAQUAT AHAMED
BOARD CHAIR & PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Mary Anne DolanMARY ANNE DOLAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Mitchell KaplanMITCHELL KAPLAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Carole GeithnerCAROLE GEITHNER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
James TooleyJAMES TOOLEY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Kelly AndersonKELLY ANDERSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Sebastian BuckSEBASTIAN BUCK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Ayad AkhtarAYAD AKHTAR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Andrea LiebermanANDREA LIEBERMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Lee SachsLEE SACHS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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
- $4,683,825
- Expenses
- $4,079,438
- Contributions
- $3,365,681
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $3,258,898
- Expenses
- $3,281,609
- Contributions
- $1,963,945
- Grants paid
- $20,000
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,161,005
- Expenses
- $3,468,846
- Contributions
- $3,030,365
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,291,972
- Expenses
- $3,057,522
- Contributions
- $2,459,101
- 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.
Other returns filed
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,277,192
- Expenses
- $2,776,045
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,250,063
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,360,191
- Expenses
- $1,681,095
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,505,983
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,387,416
- Expenses
- $2,655,046
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,018,985
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,666,320
- Expenses
- $2,348,605
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,825,463
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,479,160
- Expenses
- $2,215,390
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,740,897
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,564,213
- Expenses
- $2,005,318
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,237,071
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,557,176
- Expenses
- $1,805,786
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,603,377
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
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
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$171,000
2024 EDUCATION
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$148,750
2023 EDUCATION
-
$138,900
2023 HUMAN SERVICES
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$110,000
2022 EDUCATION
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$64,000
2022 EDUCATION
-
2022 General purpose
-
2023 General purpose
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.