MINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A70

Classification

1000

Street

1536 HEWITT AVE MS-A1730

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

• CREATIVE WRITING CLASSESTAUGHT CREATIVE WRITING COURSES IN 8 MINNESOTA STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. 29 FULL 10-15 WEEK LONG COURSES TAUGHT IN 2024, PLUS GUEST TEACHERS AND SHORTER COURSES. ESTIMATED 600 STUDENTS TAUGHT IN 2024.

  Expenses $208,547

• RE-ENTRYSUPPORTED WRITERS' TRANSITION FROM PRISON TO COMMUNITY THROUGH BOTH MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL MEANS (NETWORKING, CONSULTATIONS, ETC.

  Expenses $83,854

• PUBLIC ARTPRODUCED AND PUBLISHED THE ART OF INCARCERATED MINNESOTANS, MOST NOTABLY BY SUPPORTING AMERICAN PRECARIAT, AN ANTHOLOGY EDITED ENTIRELY BY INCARCERATED PEOPLE, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED BY COFFEE HOUSE PRESS IN 2023.

  Expenses $19,476

• PUBLIC READINGS AND EVENTSHOSTED A NUMBER OF PUBLIC EVENTS AT WHICH THE WRITING OF INCARCERATED MINNESOTANS WAS FEATURED AND DISSEMINATED BROADLY. EVENTS WERE BOTH IN PERSON AND VIRTUAL.

  Expenses $32,900

• MENTOR PROGRAMFACILITATED A ONE TO ONE MAIL MENTOR PROGRAM, IN WHICH INCARCERATED WRITERS RECEIVED PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK ON THEIR WORK FROM EXPERT WRITERS AND MENTORS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY.

  Expenses $23,524

• WRITERS COLLECTIVESSPONSORED "WRITERS COLLECTIVES," SELF ORGANIZED GROUPS OF INCARCERATED WRITERS WHO MEET REGULARLY TO SHARE WORK, DISCUSS, READINGS, AND PLAN LITERARY EVENTS.

  Expenses $13,867

• LETTERPRESS BROADSIDESPUBLISHED LETTERPRESS BROADSIDES FEATURING ARTISTIC ADAPTATIONS OF MPWW STUDENT WORK.

  Expenses $15,206

• ANNUAL STUDENT JOURNALPRODUCED AN ANTHOLOGY OF STUDENT WRITING FOR INTERNAL CONSUMPTION, EDITED AND CURATED BY INCARCERATED EDITORS.

  Expenses $38,053

• FISCAL SPONSORSHIPFISCALLY SPONSORED NON-INCORPORATED ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING AND SERVING INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM.

• MUSIC STUDIO OPERATED A MUSIC STUDIO INSIDE FARIBAULT PRISON, IN WHICH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS ARE TRAINED IN STUDIO PRODUCTION AND WRITERS ARE ABLE TO PRODUCE AUDIO RECORDINGS OF THEIR OWN WORK.

  Expenses $38,379

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.

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

  $643,495

  Expenses

  $668,411

  Contributions

  $551,094

  Grants paid

  $111,250

• 2023

  Revenue

  $603,121

  Expenses

  $547,829

  Contributions

  $537,663

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $725,077

  Expenses

  $383,851

  Contributions

  $670,624

  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

  $602,346

  Expenses

  $304,920

  Assets (EOY)

  $757,779

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $439,395

  Expenses

  $275,966

  Assets (EOY)

  $481,957

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $165,487

  Expenses

  $175,162

  Assets (EOY)

  $136,359

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $125,907

  Expenses

  $120,576

  Assets (EOY)

  $91,566

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 2014

Tax period

1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014

Principal officer

Jennifer Bowen Hicks

Mailing address

1425 Grantham StreetSaint Paul MN 55108

Website

www.mnprisonwriting.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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

• TONE UP

  $111,250

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• MINNESOTA HUMANITIES CENTER

  $82,350

  2022 · MHC LEGACY GRANT

• CLEAN SLATE INITATIVE INC

  $80,000

  2024 · THE CLEAN SLATE INITIATIVE PROVIDES GRANTS TO STATE-BASED COALITIONS ADVANCING AUTOMATED RECORD CLEARANCE LEGISLATION THAT REMOVES BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, AND EDUCATION FOR MILLIONS OF ELIGIBLE AMERICANS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS.

• TAKEACTION MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND

  $75,000

  2022 · CIVIC ENGAGEMENT WORK FOR TONE UP

• BLACK VISIONS

  $50,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS IN MINNESOTA

• MINNESOTA BLACK COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2023 · Fiscal Sponsor for Tone Up LLC

• HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE

  $50,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $47,000

  2022 · PROJECT SUPPORT FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

• SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION

  $26,750

  2023 · MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR PROGRAMS, OPERATIONS, OR OTHER PURPOSES

• NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS

  $25,000

  2022 · Moving Towards Abolition Fund

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $22,508

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

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