THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS-NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL INC

EIN 72-1088036 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2024: $360,223
Expenses 2024: $376,866

Program services were 79.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 2000
Street: 938 LAFAYETTE ST STE 514

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

The Festival's mission is threefold; to serve the community through educational, theatrical, literary, and musical programs to nurture, support and showcase regional, national, and international writers, actors, musicians and other artists.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Festival's mission is to serve the community through educational, theatrical, literary, and musical programs to nurture, support and showcase regional, national, and international writers, actors, musicians and other artists.

Tennessee Williams Literary Festival - Literary panel discussions which provide a congenial forum on an array of diverse topics, theatrical performances, master classes with notable experts in writing or the arts, and a variety of adjunct components to attract and enrich audience participants. These events took place in-person with additional events held virtually through filmed events, live streams, and pre-recorded panel discussions.

Expenses $258,674 · Revenue $51,226
Saints and Sinners Literary Festival - Features panel discussions and master classes around literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors, and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of the fans of LGBT literature. A full weekend of in-person and virtual events included panels, interviews, and workshops.

Expenses $26,971 · Revenue $15,638
Contests - Poetry, Fiction, and One Act Play contests are held annually for individuals who have not yet been published.

Expenses $14,378 · Revenue $19,702

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.

Gregory Gajus

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Lawrence Gobble

Immediate Past President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sara Woodward

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michelle Nelson

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Terry Verigan

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Amelia Koch

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Peggy Scott Laborde

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Morgan Babst

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sara Barnard

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Beau Bratcher

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Peter Hagan

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
David Hoover

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DJ Johnson

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Errol Laborde

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Margit Longbrake

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Harry Mayronne

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Mary Niall Mitchell

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Angel Adams Parham

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Edward Spots

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ariel Wilson-Harris

Director

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

$360,223

Expenses

$376,866

Contributions

$244,827

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$344,093

Expenses

$369,751

Contributions

$229,130

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$378,669

Expenses

$381,730

Contributions

$297,159

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$360,223	$376,866	$244,827	$0
2023	$344,093	$369,751	$229,130	$0
2022	$378,669	$381,730	$297,159	$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

$340,006

Expenses

$351,703

Assets (EOY)

$211,662
2020 · 990

Revenue

$277,983

Expenses

$264,331

Assets (EOY)

$213,785
2019 · 990

Revenue

$264,853

Expenses

$253,659

Assets (EOY)

$229,122
2018 · 990

Revenue

$349,695

Expenses

$349,444

Assets (EOY)

$191,119
2017 · 990

Revenue

$355,837

Expenses

$331,348

Assets (EOY)

$195,078
2016 · 990

Revenue

$355,930

Expenses

$331,457

Assets (EOY)

$166,273
2015 · 990

Revenue

$346,611

Expenses

$355,886

Assets (EOY)

$142,150
2014 · 990

Revenue

$329,884

Expenses

$353,941

Assets (EOY)

$154,929
2013 · 990

Revenue

$411,825

Expenses

$410,346

Assets (EOY)

$175,115
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$318,159

Assets (EOY)

$185,231

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$340,006	$351,703	$211,662
2020	990	$277,983	$264,331	$213,785
2019	990	$264,853	$253,659	$229,122
2018	990	$349,695	$349,444	$191,119
2017	990	$355,837	$331,348	$195,078
2016	990	$355,930	$331,457	$166,273
2015	990	$346,611	$355,886	$142,150
2014	990	$329,884	$353,941	$154,929
2013	990	$411,825	$410,346	$175,115
2012	990	not reported	$318,159	$185,231

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

THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

$18,753

2022 ARTS/CULTURE
ARTS COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS

$15,617

2024 Gen Op
NEW ORLEANS THEATRE ASSOCIATION INC

$15,000

2023 Grant for Tribute Reading (2d of 3)
NEW ORLEANS THEATRE ASSOCIATION INC

$15,000

2024 Grant for Tribute Reading 3d of 3
NEW ORLEANS THEATRE ASSOCIATION INC

$15,000

2022 Fund local art & theatre production
NEW ORLEANS THEATRE ASSOCIATION INC

$15,000

2025 Tribute Reading (1st of 3)
THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

$10,321

2024 ARTS/CULTURE
THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

$8,350

2023 ARTS/CULTURE
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$5,360

2022 UNRESTRICTED

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.