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LITARTS RI

EIN 82-4968555 PROVIDENCE, RI

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Revenue 2024
$327,897
Expenses 2024
$327,808

Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
400 HARRIS AVE

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

LitArts RI, formerly What Cheer Writers Club, supports Rhode Island's creators of the written, spoken and illustrated word through community events, free and low-cost business services, and discounted coworking space. As an umbrella organization, we serve as a centralized community connecting content creators, fans and literary organizations state-wide.Our mission is to elevate the content arts in our state by providing accessible workshops and community gatherings where writers can feel supported and known by fellow creatives and patrons of the arts. In addition, we seek to burnish Rhode Island's reputation as a literary destinationa place where content creators thrive.

  • LitArts RI supports Rhode Island writers and contributes to the state's arts ecosystem. The organization operates an award-winning Center in Providence offering creative workspace designed for writers, meeting rooms, an audio arts studio, and a local author library. LitArts RI programming includes over a dozen local writing groups, craft workshops led by local teaching artists, professional development practicums for writers. In addition, the organization holds community events such as write-ins and spoken word events at external venues including local bookshops and arts organizations. In 2024, program highlights included a Writing + Wellness Resource Fair in which LitArts RI brough the community together to support writers and help them find the resources they need to thrive. LitArts RI also debuted Writers Like Us, a day of free programming designed by and for BIPOC creatives. The organization offered professional development through Build Your Creative Capital, an application support day for writers, and finished out the year with a panel on Queries, Proposals and Publishing for Writers of Genre. In addition, LitArts RI hosted 22 writing workshops, 15 writing groups and showcased the work of over 200 local artists.

    Expenses $224,543 · Revenue $19,003

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.

  • Holly Gaboriault

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Michelle Cruz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ana Gonzalez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Holland

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Cynthia Holt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jillian Winters

    Operations Director

    Total calculated
    $45,161
    From this org
    $42,388
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,773
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jodie Vinson

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $73,999
    From this org
    $69,741
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,258
    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
    $327,897
    Expenses
    $327,808
    Contributions
    $308,894
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $890,365
    Expenses
    $379,503
    Contributions
    $923,024
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $309,393
    Expenses
    $302,703
    Contributions
    $289,750
    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
    $221,601
    Expenses
    $246,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,623

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $219,600
    Expenses
    $212,424
    Assets (EOY)
    $209,914

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,068
    Expenses
    $208,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,925

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

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.