How much did COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES grant in FY2025?

COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES reported 53 grants totaling $868,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES based?

COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES is based in NY.

COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES

COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES and presses provides technical assistance to to the community of independent literary publishers and advocates on their behalf.

$869k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$15k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

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2023

hawthorndenepiphanycontentonline lilithfilipinoencourageliterature arts

2024

amazon lithawthorndencollectiveayin presspress limitednyscafilipino

2025

mellonspacesdiscussionsliteracyreadingvietnamesewritten

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $64k
$10k–50k43 grants · $450k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

LITTLE PUSS PRESS LLC$15,000
ELECTRIC LIT INC$15,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$15,000
CARDBOARD HOUSE PRESS$15,000
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC$10,000
NOEMI PRESS INC$10,000
FEMINIST PRESS INC$10,000
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS$10,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$10,000
GREEN LINDEN PRESS$10,000
SINISTER WISDOM INC$10,000
BLACKWATER PRESS LLC$10,000
CAVANKERRY PRESS LTD$10,000
CONDUIT BOOKS & EPHEMERA$10,000
BAMBOO RIDGE PRESS$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.0M · 31 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+19%

Still filing today

87%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $328k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CF
CENTER FOR THE ART OF TRANSLATION
3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +297%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $52k · revenue +50%
SM
SHOUT MOUSE PRESS
2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +189%

Funded once

FS
FULL STOP MAGAZINE
one grant, 2024 · $13k
AV
AFRICAN VOICES COMMUNICATIONS INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +61%
CD
CENTRO DE ECONOMIA CREATIVA INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Nomadic Press

Through publications, events, and active community participation, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word.…

Arts & Culture

Adroit Journal

To promote literary arts and education by publishing original works of literature and providing a platform for writers and readers to engage with creative writing, literary criticism, and cultural commentary in the public interest.

Arts & Culture

Poetry Flash

Publishes literary reviews, poetry, interviews, and essays as well as an extensive calendar of literary activities on the west coast of the united states.

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Arcata Press

We share stories across cultures and cultivate dialogue to promote understanding, relationships, and collaborative action.

Arts & Culture

Jaded Ibis Press Inc

public charity

Arts & Culture

Liminal Publishing

To publish sexual-trauma survivors' poetry and prose to provide healing and empowerment, and to conduct poetry workshops for survivors to introduce them to the healing power of creative expression.

Arts & Culture

The Boundless Books Project

Education

Chax Press Inc

Publication of nonprofit literary works. Education in literature and the arts.

Arts & Culture

Dzanc Books Inc

Dzanc Books was hailed as the future of publishing in Publishers Weekly in December 2007. Beginning with modest goals of publishing 4-6 titles each year, the house now publishes between 10-15 books annually. Notable and award-winning…

Arts & Culture

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of

We are genre writers focusing on science fiction and fantasy, fostering a diverse professional community committed to inclusion, empowerment and outreach.

Arts & Culture

Twelve Eleven Press

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Muae Publishing Inc

Kaya press is a group of dedicated writers, artists, readers, and lovers of books working together to publish the most challenging, thoughtful, and provocative literature being produced throughout the asian and pacific island diasporas. we…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Public Space Literary Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soapbox the Feminist Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/77

the rest of the field

10,117/120,683

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/60

Grantees still filing

44/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,406,013Arts & Culture$768,915Education$132,500Community Improvement$55,500Environment$42,500Religion$35,000Human Services$5,625Public Benefit$5,625

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Poetry FoundationIL27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Poetry Foundation · Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation · Hawthornden Foundation · Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc · New Israel Fund · Jerome Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTER FOR THE NARRATIVE AND LYRIC ARTS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~38 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812281945 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTER FOR THE NARRATIVE AND LYRIC ARTS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 38 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Council of Literary Magazines?

Find your warmest path to Council of Literary Magazines through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Council of Literary Magazines?

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COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Council of Literary Magazines?

More from the funding graph