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DECATUR BOOK FESTIVAL INC

EIN 20-8669575 DECATUR, GA

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Revenue 2024
$501,021
Expenses 2024
$330,096

Program services were 82.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
500 S COLUMBIA DR

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).

Other organizations at this address

9 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission is to encourage a love of reading, inquiry, and conversation in people of all ages, and to build an enthusiastic and inclusive community of readers and writers throughout the south, sparking social, creative, and intellectual engagement.

  • The annual Decatur Book Festival is a community event open to the public and supported by cash contributions from the corporate community and others as well as in-kind donations. It is one of the largest Book Festivals in the United States and brings authors from around the country.

    Expenses $272,516

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.

  • Leslie Wingate

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tara Y Coyt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shelbia L Jackson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ian Webb

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robin Morris

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jill Joplin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alison Weissinger

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mathwon R Howard

    President Emeritus

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Adam Rosenkoetter

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • FeFe Handy

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Steely

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $501,021
    Expenses
    $330,096
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,836
    Expenses
    $18,263
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $115,441
    Expenses
    $104,723
    Contributions
    $100,100
    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
    $176,932
    Expenses
    $122,015
    Assets (EOY)
    $299,569

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,156
    Expenses
    $206,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $268,159

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $477,547
    Expenses
    $463,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,983

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $803,450
    Expenses
    $764,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,972

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $793,805
    Expenses
    $800,021
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,654

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $758,216
    Expenses
    $770,106
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,771

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $779,155
    Expenses
    $781,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,022

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $653,263
    Expenses
    $697,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,626

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $656,924
    Expenses
    $631,273
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,063

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $592,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,412

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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.