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ELECTRIC LIT INC

EIN 46-1402365 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2025
$540,887
Expenses 2025
$516,285

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S99
Classification
1000
Street
1850 AMSTERDAM 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).

Other organizations at this address

7 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 · 2025

Mission

ELECTRIC LITERATURES MISSION IS TO AMPLIFY THE POWER OF STORYTELLING WITH DIGITAL INNOVATION, AND TO ENSURE THAT LITERATURE REMAINS A VIBRANT PRESENCE IN POPULAR CULTURE BY SUPPORTING WRITERS, EMBRACING NEW TECHNOLOGIES, AND BUILDING LITERARY COMMUNITY. WE SERVE OUR MISSION BY OPERATING LITERARY WEBSITES, DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE PUBLISHING PROJECTS, AND HOSTING FREE LITERARY EVENTS THAT ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ELECTRIC LITERATURES MISSION IS TO KEEP LITERATURE A VITAL PART OF POPULAR CULTURE THROUGH DIGITAL INNOVATION AND SUPPORTING WRITERS.

  • Recommended Reading - weekly fiction magazine with over 100,000 readers per year, one of the largest audiences for literary short stories in the world. The Commuter - weekly magazine that publishes short, experimental prose, poetry, and graphic narrative.

    Expenses $419,734 · Revenue $247,916

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Halimah Marcus

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $67,385
    From this org
    $67,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Russell A Hunter

    BOARD CHAIRMAN/FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michael Cunningham

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Meredith Talusan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Deesha Philyaw

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sara Nelson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nicole Cliffe

    BOARD MEMBER

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $540,887
    Expenses
    $516,285
    Contributions
    $283,958
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $445,570
    Expenses
    $486,409
    Contributions
    $293,867
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $477,969
    Expenses
    $470,053
    Contributions
    $319,533
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $411,473
    Expenses
    $413,694
    Contributions
    $255,190
    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
    $328,113
    Expenses
    $355,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,411

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $320,464
    Expenses
    $337,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,626

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $280,663
    Expenses
    $291,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,859

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $294,717
    Expenses
    $301,333
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,621

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $283,704
    Expenses
    $282,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,179

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $255,558
    Expenses
    $252,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,206

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $121,969
    Expenses
    $90,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,302

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Russell A Hunter
Mailing address
147 Prince StBrooklyn NY 11201
Website
electricliterature.com
Doing business as
Electric Literature

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.