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AMERICAN LITERARY TRANSLATORS ASSN

EIN 74-2157964 TUCSON, AZ

Revenue 2024
$677,645
Expenses 2024
$634,231

Program services were 88.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
5151 E BROADWAY BLVD STE 1700 PMB 5

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

To support the work of literary translators, advance the art of literary translation, serve translators, and the students, teachers, publishers,and readers of literature in translation.

  • Conference : ALTAs annual conference is the largest gathering of literary translators in the U.S., and the only one of its kind. It brings together between 400-500 translators, writers, and editors for an intimate, intense, three-day conversation through panels, workshops, roundtables, and bilingual readings. The ALTA conference is structured around the creation of high-quality art. Panels focus on important issues and trends in the field, while roundtables are structured to provide practical information to working translators, like funding and publication advice. Workshops deal with issues of craft, with participants working through solutions on the spot. Readings are performances in their own right, and many are held in partnership with local arts organizations, thus facilitating interaction with the local community, and engagement with diverse and excellent art. The conference was held in Milwaukee, WI from October 25-28, 2024

    Expenses $143,525 · Revenue $150,413

  • Mentorships : ALTAs Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. Since its inception in 2015, the program has supported 90 emerging translators working from 31 languages: Arabic, Bangla, Braj Bhasha, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Isan, Japanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Korean, Malayalam, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Uyghur. The Mentorship Program allows an emerging translator (someone who has published no more than one full-length work of translation) to begin a career as a literary translator with a more seasoned translator by their side, as they create a literary translation of high caliber. In 2024, the program supported 16 emerging translators; in 2025, it supported 19.

    Expenses $91,963 · Grants $80,350 · Revenue $123,174

  • Awards : ALTA awards six major prizes at the annual conference: the National Translation Award in Poetry and Prose, for an exceptional book of translated literature published within the previous year; the ALTA First Translation Prize, for an exceptional debut literary translation published within the previous calendar year; the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, for an exceptional work of Asian poetry or source text from Zen Buddhism in English translation published within the previous year; the Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA), for an exceptional work of Italian prose in English translation published within the previous year; and the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA), for an exceptional work of prose written originally by an author with Spanish (Spain) nationality in English translation published within the previous year. ALTA also offers the ALTA Travel Fellowships for emerging translators (those with no full-length translations yet published or under contract) to attend the annual conference. In 2024, the Travel Fellowships program supported 4 emerging translators. -6 awards bestowed, 4 Travel Fellowships bestowed -A total of $31,000 in funds given to translators: -National Translation Award in Poetry: $4,000 -National Translation Award in Prose: $4,000 -ALTA First Translation Prize: $3,000 -Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize: $6,000 [$10,000 starting in 2025 - will be reflected in FY26] -Italian Prose in Translation Award: $5,000 -Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award: $5,000 -Travel Fellowships: 4 x $1,000

    Expenses $62,587 · Grants $37,100 · Revenue $40,276

  • To support the work of literary translators, advance the art of literary translation, serve translators, and the students, teachers, publishers, and readers of literature in translation.

    Expenses $260,544 · Grants $19,170 · Revenue $319,139

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.

  • Elisabeth Jaquette

    Executive Director (07.01.24-08.31.24)

    Total calculated
    $8,750
    From this org
    $8,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sean Gasper Bye

    Interim Executive Director (8.31.24-04.28.25)

    Total calculated
    $52,500
    From this org
    $52,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Katrine Jensen

    Executive Director (04.28.25-06.30.25)

    Total calculated
    $13,064
    From this org
    $13,064
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Chenxin Jiang

    President (Fall 2023-5/2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Corine Tachtiris

    Vice President (Fall 2023-5/2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Patrick Blaine

    Treasurer (2018-Fall 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Zachary Michael Schulman

    Treasurer (Fall 2024-Fall 2027)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Erin Riddle

    Secretary (Fall 2023-July 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Esther Allen

    Secretary (Fall 2024-Fall 2027)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sean Gasper Bye

    At-Large (Fall 2020-August 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bruna Dantas Lobato

    At-Large (Fall 2021-Fall 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Fabian Alfie

    At-Large (Fall 2023-Fall 2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Curtis Bauer

    At-Large (Fall 2023-Fall 2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Geoffrey Brock

    At-Large (Fall 2023-Fall 2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Naomi Carlson

    At-Large (Fall 2019-Fall 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bonnie Chau

    At-Large (Fall 2020-Fall 2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Denise Kripper

    At-Large (Fall 2024-Fall 2027)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Aviya Rivka Kushner

    At-Large (Fall 2019-Fall 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Larissa Kyzer

    At-Large (Fall 2023-Fall 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gabriella Page-Fort

    At-Large (01/2025- 2023-Fall 2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Margo Pave

    At-Large (01/2025- 2023-Fall 2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Umair Kazi

    At-Large (Fall 2023-Fall 2026)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chieh-Lan Tang

    At-Large (Fall 2023-Fall 2026)

    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
    $677,645
    Expenses
    $634,231
    Contributions
    $513,226
    Grants paid
    $102,350
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $586,478
    Expenses
    $506,197
    Contributions
    $407,479
    Grants paid
    $65,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $416,589
    Expenses
    $385,185
    Contributions
    $352,356
    Grants paid
    $51,423

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
    $421,534
    Expenses
    $388,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $814,210

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $395,458
    Expenses
    $344,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $856,032

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $311,781
    Expenses
    $279,517
    Assets (EOY)
    $692,453

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $239,261
    Expenses
    $237,752
    Assets (EOY)
    $600,470

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $290,665
    Expenses
    $234,011
    Assets (EOY)
    $566,517

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $187,198
    Expenses
    $151,967
    Assets (EOY)
    $504,274

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $195,944
    Expenses
    $184,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $469,043

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.

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.