- 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)
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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
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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.
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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
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Dan Lau
Adv Director
- Total calculated
- $114,859
- From this org
- $106,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,859
- Hours/week
- 40
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Mark Hauber
Program Director
- Total calculated
- $113,137
- From this org
- $101,598
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,539
- Hours/week
- 40
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Winona Mackell
Operations Dir
- Total calculated
- $105,195
- From this org
- $96,308
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,887
- Hours/week
- 40
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Olivia E Sears
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Barbara Paschke
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Caroline West
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Michael Carabetta
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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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
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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
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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
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$2,040,241
2024 FOR GENERAL AND PROJECT SUPPORT
-
$1,415,046
2023 FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. FOR THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
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$972,555
2022 ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT.
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$175,000
2023 HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$50,000
2023
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2023 HAWTHORNDEN GRANT
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2022 HAWTHORNDEN GRANT
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.