- Revenue 2024
- $1,721,928
- Expenses 2024
- $1,643,712
Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A33
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX 3235
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 PRODUCE LITERARY ARTS AND PROGRAMMING THAT EXPLORE THE COMPLEXITY AND VITALITY OF THE SOUTH.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO PRODUCE LITERARY ARTS AND ARTS PROGRAMMING.
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CREATION, WRITING, EDITING, PUBLICATION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF A PERIODICAL KNOWN AS "THE OXFORD AMERICAN," WHICH PROMOTES SOUTHERN ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND STUDENTS. DURING 2024 APPROXIMATELY 51,500 MAGAZINES WERE PRINTED.
Expenses $1,225,229 · Revenue $224,492
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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SARA A LEWIS
CHAIRWOMAN/EXECUTIVE DIREC
- Total calculated
- $158,377
- From this org
- $158,377
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $145,000
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $13,377
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $158,377
-
SHOBHITHAN KANDASMY
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $10,957
- From this org
- $10,957
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
DANIELLE JACKSOM
FORMER MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $40,597
- From this org
- $40,597
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
RICHARD MASSEY
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
JENNY DAVIS
MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $1,721,928
- Expenses
- $1,643,712
- Contributions
- $990,163
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,724,862
- Expenses
- $1,794,586
- Contributions
- $912,746
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $1,551,896
- Expenses
- $1,692,262
- Contributions
- $889,385
- 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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2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,575,021
- Expenses
- $1,378,802
- Assets (EOY)
- $826,347
-
2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,511,481
- Expenses
- $1,389,098
- Assets (EOY)
- $667,530
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,434,083
- Expenses
- $1,556,751
- Assets (EOY)
- $601,076
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,220,083
- Expenses
- $1,653,465
- Assets (EOY)
- $620,110
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,662,406
- Expenses
- $1,470,788
- Assets (EOY)
- $473,559
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
-
$40,000
2023 Connect
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2023 HAWTHORNDEN GRANT
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2022 HAWTHORNDEN GRANT
-
2022 FURTHER EXEMPT PURPOSE
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.