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CENTER FOR THE ART OF TRANSLATION

EIN 91-2037187 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$3,937,047
Expenses 2024
$2,803,067

Program services were 51.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A23
Classification
2000
Street
582 MARKET ST STE 700

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

Bay Area community and increases access to literature locally and globally. The Centers publications, events, and educational programming build audiences for literature in translation, enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture and promote the work of translators, and honor the incredible linguistic and cultural diversity of our schools and our world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Center for the Art of Translation champions literary translation. We bring original voices to readers, and we lead students to new ways of thinking by teaching them to translate poetry. Based in San Francisco, California, the Center connects with the greater Bay (cont on p 2)

  • ProgramsTwo Lines Press publishes outstanding literature in translation, specializing in exceptional new writing and classics that have not previously been translated into English. Since 1994 Two Lines has filled a gap in contemporary publishing, showcasing literature from over seventy languages and giving readers access to renowned and emerging writers from around the world.Two Voices hosts international writers and translators for events that showcase originality, depth, and impact. It is San Franciscos only literary series dedicated to international literature and translation. Two Voices reaches audiences for world

    Expenses $1,435,203 · Revenue $156,353

  • literature in the Bay Area and beyond through in-person and online events, seminars, and hosted discussions. The series has been called a cultural treasure of San Francisco.Poetry Inside Out is a language arts curriculum that celebrates classroom diversity and builds literacy skills by teaching students to translate great poetry from around the world. Students learn vital reading and writing skills through a creative, imaginative program that puts poetry and translation at the heart of literacy instruction. Poetry Inside Out has brought essential enrichment opportunities to almost 10,000 students and teachers since 2000, and offers students the opportunity to study and translate poems from multiple languages and write their own poetry.

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.

  • Michael Holtmann

    President

    Total calculated
    $149,125
    From this org
    $140,334
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,791
    Hours/week
    40
  • Christopher Evans

    Editorial Director

    Total calculated
    $132,066
    From this org
    $124,085
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,981
    Hours/week
    40
  • Erin Branagan

    Dev Director

    Total calculated
    $125,766
    From this org
    $117,970
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,796
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dan Lau

    Adv Director

    Total calculated
    $114,859
    From this org
    $106,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,859
    Hours/week
    40
  • Mark Hauber

    Program Director

    Total calculated
    $113,137
    From this org
    $101,598
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,539
    Hours/week
    40
  • Winona Mackell

    Operations Dir

    Total calculated
    $105,195
    From this org
    $96,308
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,887
    Hours/week
    40
  • Olivia E Sears

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Barbara Paschke

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Caroline West

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michael Carabetta

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Robin Pille

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $3,937,047
    Expenses
    $2,803,067
    Contributions
    $3,664,926
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,567,321
    Expenses
    $2,503,065
    Contributions
    $2,277,434
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,467,775
    Expenses
    $2,182,114
    Contributions
    $6,362,997
    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
    $7,301,865
    Expenses
    $1,638,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,189,306
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,580,191
    Expenses
    $1,383,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $271,247
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,325,777
    Expenses
    $1,520,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,744
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,401,526
    Expenses
    $1,358,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $233,916
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $991,812
    Expenses
    $1,112,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $192,001
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $996,468
    Expenses
    $1,015,934
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,434
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,037,596
    Expenses
    $859,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $321,786
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $675,883
    Expenses
    $733,563
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,755
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $630,091
    Expenses
    $622,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,804
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $699,154
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,313

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 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 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.