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TORCH LITERARY ARTS

EIN 87-3480372 ROUND ROCK, TX

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Revenue 2024
$324,087
Expenses 2024
$298,351

Program services were 91.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
1300
Street
1148 ALEXANDRIA WAY

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

TO PROMOTE THE WORK OF BLACK WOMEN BY PUBLISHING CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE WRITING BY EMERGING AND EXPERIENCED WRITERS ALIKE, TO ARCHIVE CONTRIBUTORS' LITERARY WORK FOR POSTERITY AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, AND PROVIDE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK WOMEN THROUGH LITERARY ARTS.

  • TORCH MAGAZINE: ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINE THAT PUBLISHES FEATURES MONTHLY ACROSS POETRY, FICTION, CREATIVE NONFICTION, AND SCRIPT (PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS).

    Expenses $65,307

  • READING SERIES FEATURES NOTABLE AUTHORS AT A PUBLIC READING TO CELEBRATE AND PROMOTE THEIR CURRENT PUBLICATIONS AND ENGAGE THE LOCAL LITERARY COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $57,144 · Revenue $4,304

  • SPECIAL EVENTS: READINGS, PANELS, AND CRAFT CONVERSATIONS TO AMPLIFY BLACK WOMEN WRITERS AND INCREASE AWARENESS OF LITERARY ARTS.

    Expenses $149,662 · Revenue $7,300

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Sequoia Maner

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stephanie Lang

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Candace Lopez

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Omi Jones

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shannon Johnson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dana Weekes

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erin Waelder

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amanda Johnston

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $82,731
    From this org
    $82,731
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $324,087
    Expenses
    $298,351
    Contributions
    $312,365
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $247,648
    Expenses
    $214,420
    Contributions
    $246,694
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $111,422
    Expenses
    $21,688
    Contributions
    $111,388
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Amanda Johnston
Mailing address
5540 N Lamar BlvdAustin TX 78756
Website
TorchLiteraryArts.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 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.