WRITERS AND BOOKS INC

EIN 16-1154656 ROCHESTER, NY

Revenue 2023: $633,229
Expenses 2023: $799,740

Program services were 65.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A76Z
Classification: 1000
Street: 740 UNIVERSITY 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 · 2023

Mission

Writers & Books fosters and promotes reading and writing as lifelong activities for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Foster and promote reading and writing as lifelong activities.

Writers & Books engages youth and adults of all backgrounds and ages with the literary arts through workshops, readings, presentations, conferences, writing residencies, and intersectional activities. The Organization owns and operates Ampersand Books, an in-house independent bookshop, and Gell: A Finger Lakes Creative Retreat, sited on 24 acres in Naples, NY.

Expenses $522,023 · Grants $17,449 · Revenue $91,631

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Christine Eichelberger

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.9
Timothy B Schmid

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.4
Mark Boylan

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.7
Beverly Gold

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.9
Brad Van Auken

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Jaylene Carpenter

Member (through 3/30/23)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Eric Cook

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.2
William Grande

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.4
Celeste Kier

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.4
Jacquelyn Cox-Smalls

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.7
Lester Friedman

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.7
Randy Morgenstern

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Stephanie Paredes

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
John Bouchard Esq

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Kevin Connell Esq

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.7
Ann Marie Fallon

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.7
Quiana Joseph-Muhammad

Member (through 9/20/23)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
David Shakes

Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Alison Meyers

Executive Director

Total calculated

$98,135

From this org

$98,135

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

50

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

2023

Revenue

$633,229

Expenses

$799,740

Contributions

$541,598

Grants paid

$17,449
2022

Revenue

$807,920

Expenses

$676,305

Contributions

$706,112

Grants paid

$11,424

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2023	$633,229	$799,740	$541,598	$17,449
2022	$807,920	$676,305	$706,112	$11,424

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

$636,824

Expenses

$527,911

Assets (EOY)

$929,486
2020 · 990

Revenue

$644,985

Expenses

$643,913

Assets (EOY)

$815,339
2018 · 990

Revenue

$619,013

Expenses

$725,986

Assets (EOY)

$920,716
2017 · 990

Revenue

$628,727

Expenses

$687,657

Assets (EOY)

$921,177
2016 · 990

Revenue

$622,812

Expenses

$720,031

Assets (EOY)

$963,780
2015 · 990

Revenue

$763,866

Expenses

$744,045

Assets (EOY)

$1,000,710
2014 · 990

Revenue

$759,217

Expenses

$682,439

Assets (EOY)

$1,133,709
2013 · 990

Revenue

$592,696

Expenses

$588,912

Assets (EOY)

$1,115,758
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$575,764

Assets (EOY)

$1,101,099
2011 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$520,734

Assets (EOY)

$1,131,503

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$636,824	$527,911	$929,486
2020	990	$644,985	$643,913	$815,339
2018	990	$619,013	$725,986	$920,716
2017	990	$628,727	$687,657	$921,177
2016	990	$622,812	$720,031	$963,780
2015	990	$763,866	$744,045	$1,000,710
2014	990	$759,217	$682,439	$1,133,709
2013	990	$592,696	$588,912	$1,115,758
2012	990	not reported	$575,764	$1,101,099
2011	990	not reported	$520,734	$1,131,503

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

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$114,534

2024 ARTS & CULTURE
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$84,154

2022 FOR THE YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP FUND
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$81,167

2023 FOR THE GELL CENTER
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$20,400

2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$15,700

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC

$15,000

2023 CHARITABLE SUPPORT. ANY RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATED TO THE GRANTEE.
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$10,200

2023 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC

$10,000

2022 GENERAL OPERATING
NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC

$10,000

2024 CAPACITY-BUILDING GRANT PROGRAM
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INCORPORATED

$6,944

2024 POET LAUREATE FELLOWSHIP

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.