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CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL INC

EIN 81-3123725 CHARLESTON, SC

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Revenue 2024
$1,692,898
Expenses 2024
$1,266,119

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
3000
Street
19 TRADD ST

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

Charleston Literary Festival, Inc. produces a curated, annual program of events with a distinctly international flavor in the historic setting of Charleston, South Carolina. It brings together world class authors and speakers on a variety of topics to build conversations around some of today's most important and inspiring books and ideas.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Charleston Literary Festival, Inc. hosts an annual curated program of events (live and virtual) with a distinctive international flavor celebrating Charleston's tradition of literary and artistic appreciation.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $1,046,799 · Grants $27,130 · Revenue $296,518

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Walter Fiederowicz

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Wenda Harris Millard

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Anne Blessing

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • James Marino

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Summer Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jasmine Burns

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sam Easley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Galvani

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura Gates

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Belinda Gergel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deborah Kennedy Kennard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Kim Long Term Ended

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leigh McNairy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victor Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deborah Gage

    Founder and Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Leilani Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rock Hillenbrand

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Monica Langley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peter McCausland

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martha Rhodes McLendon

    director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Moriarty

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $120,000
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,692,898
    Expenses
    $1,266,119
    Contributions
    $1,367,939
    Grants paid
    $27,130
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,070,680
    Expenses
    $1,010,162
    Contributions
    $886,098
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $379,046
    Expenses
    $380,347
    Contributions
    $267,469
    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
    $636,314
    Expenses
    $478,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $468,165

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $428,080
    Expenses
    $292,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $305,593

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $317,305
    Expenses
    $356,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,467

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $365,368
    Expenses
    $265,811
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,510

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,889
    Expenses
    $164,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $105,953

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 2016

Tax period
1 September 2016 to 31 August 2017
Principal officer
Walter M Fiederowicz
Mailing address
PO BOX 1825CHARLESTON SC 29402
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

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

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.