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WRITING DOWNTOWN INC

EIN 85-3307907 LAS VEGAS, NV

Revenue 2024
$166,589
Expenses 2024
$155,013

Program services were 69.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
519 S 6TH STREET

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

Primary exempt purpose

Elevate and foster opportunities for writers and creatives. More information in Schedule O

  • The Writing Downtown writers residency in Las Vegas for fiction nonfiction poets and screenwriters which includes a public performance element from select residentseach year usually entails 12 writers and 200 attendance members for all events.

    Expenses $30,000 · Grants $16,500

  • Wikipedia work: taking photos and improving articles for notable people and works including writers at events like National Book Awards AWP and Jaipur Literature Festival; stories published in Best American Short Stories and literary prize finalists honorees. Over 500 creatives benefited.

    Expenses $38,500 · Grants $35,000

  • Fiscal sponsorship for film projects by writer-directors serving as a lightweight fiscal sponsor for feature films documentaries and shorts. Beneficiaries: 2 projects but 25 people are eventually paid or benefit from various sources.

    Expenses $39,650 · Grants $40,000

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.

  • Jennifer 8 Lee

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Christopher Thorpe

    Board member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Latoya Peterson

    Board 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $166,589
    Expenses
    $155,013
    Contributions
    $166,589
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Jennifer Lee
Mailing address
519 S 6th StreetLas Vegas NV 89101

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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

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.