How much does Council of Literary Magazines and Presses give?

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses reported 55 itemized grants totaling $533,750, out of $868,675 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Council of Literary Magazines and Presses fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (69%), Arts & Culture (26%), Education (2%).

Who are Council of Literary Magazines and Presses's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Center for the Art of Translation ($60k), One Story Inc ($55k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($52k).

Does Council of Literary Magazines and Presses fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Council of Literary Magazines and Presses?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Poetry Foundation, Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation.

Where is Council of Literary Magazines and Presses based?

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses is based in NY.

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Council of Literary Magazines and Presses

The COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES serves one of the most active segments of american arts and culture: the independent publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose. The COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES accomplish the backstage work of american literature: discovering new writers, supporting mid-career writers,…

$869k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 55
Itemized grants FY2025: 39
Organizations funded FY2024: 31%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $534k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $15,000
Organizations funded a year: 31 to 39; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 16
Total assets, FY2025: $2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Council of Literary Magazines and Presses funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	49	$534k	69%
FY2024	39	$473k	31%
FY2023	31	$364k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$3.1MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$88kCivil Rights$60kEnvironment$43kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Benefit$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Center for the Art of Translation	$60,000	3	1%
One Story Inc	$55,000	3	4%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$52,000	3	0%
Shoutmousepressinc	$50,000	2	4%
Electric Lit Inc	$45,500	3	3%
The Orion Society Inc	$42,500	3	1%
Bellevue Literary Press Inc	$35,332	3	2%
The Feminist Press Inc	$35,288	3	1%
Archipelago Books Inc	$35,078	3	1%
Nightboat Books Inc	$35,000	3	4%

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All grantees of Council of Literary Magazines and Presses by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Center for the Art of Translation	$60,000	3	1%
One Story Inc	$55,000	3	4%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$52,000	3	0%
Shoutmousepressinc	$50,000	2	4%
Electric Lit Inc	$45,500	3	3%
The Orion Society Inc	$42,500	3	1%
Bellevue Literary Press Inc	$35,332	3	2%
The Feminist Press Inc	$35,288	3	1%
Archipelago Books Inc	$35,078	3	1%
Nightboat Books Inc	$35,000	3	4%
Omnidawn Publishing Inc	$35,000	3	8%
Bellevue Literary Review Inc	$32,500	3	5%
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts	$30,000	2	42%
American Short Fiction Inc	$30,000	2	n/a
Guernica Inc	$25,625	3	31%
Philippine American Writers and Artists	$25,000	2	n/a
Muslims for Progressive Values	$25,000	2	2%
Bard College	$25,000	2	0%
Graywolf Press	$25,000	2	0%
James Madison University Foundation Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Alice James Poetry Cooperative	$25,000	2	4%
The Beloit Poetry Foundation Inc	$25,000	2	20%
The Oxford American Literary Project Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Swan Isle Press Inc	$25,000	2	n/a
Rain Taxi Inc	$25,000	2	6%
Epiphany Magazine Inc	$20,625	2	8%
Callaloo Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	13%
Sinister Wisdom Inc	$20,000	2	8%
Bamboo Ridge Press	$17,500	2	4%
Futurepoem Inc	$16,130	2	6%
Cardboard House Press	$15,000	1	27%
Little Puss Press LLC	$15,000	1	n/a
Full Stop Magazine Inc	$13,125	1	n/a
Lampblack Literary Foundation Inc	$13,125	2	n/a
Los Angeles Review of Books	$10,000	1	1%
Gasher Press	$10,000	1	n/a
Coffee House Press Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Rose Metal Press Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Cavankerry Press Ltd	$10,000	1	3%
Rescue Press	$10,000	1	n/a
Conduit Books & Ephemera	$10,000	1	n/a
Board of Trustees of Illinois State University	$10,000	1	n/a
Flood Editions Nfp	$10,000	1	n/a
African Voices Communications Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network	$10,000	1	2%
Ugly Duckling Presse Ltd	$10,000	1	3%
Noemi Press Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Circumference Books	$10,000	1	n/a
Bull City Press LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Passager	$10,000	1	10%
McSweeney's Literary Arts Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Tupelo Press Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Lugar Comun Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Narrative Magazine Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Deep Vellum Publishing Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Blackwater Press LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Visual Art Exchange Inc	$10,000	1	4%
Green Linden Press	$10,000	1	n/a
Brink Literacy Project	$10,000	1	n/a
Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts	$10,000	1	4%
Centro de Economia Creativa Inc	$10,000	1	0%
A Public Space Literary Projects Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
Common Foundation Inc	$7,500	1	6%
Canopy Canopy Canopy Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Consequence Magazine Inc	$7,500	1	16%
N1 Foundation	$7,500	1	1%
Essay Press Publishers	$7,250	1	n/a
Off the Park Press Inc	$6,625	1	n/a
Soapbox the Feminist Foundation Inc	$5,625	1	2%
Literary Freedom Project Inc	$5,625	1	4%
Contra Mundum Press (V)	$5,625	1	n/a
Minerva Projects	$5,625	1	n/a
The Drift Magazine Foundation Inc	$5,625	1	n/a
Poetry Mailing List Inc	$5,625	1	n/a
Room- a Sketchbook for Analytic Action	$5,625	1	n/a
The Ayin Institute Inc	$5,625	1	1%
Lilith Publications Inc	$5,625	1	1%

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Poetry FoundationIL49.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

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

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About Council of Literary Magazines and Presses

How much does Council of Literary Magazines and Presses give?: Council of Literary Magazines and Presses reported 55 itemized grants totaling $533,750, out of $868,675 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Council of Literary Magazines and Presses fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (69%), Arts & Culture (26%), Education (2%).
Who are Council of Literary Magazines and Presses's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Center for the Art of Translation ($60k), One Story Inc ($55k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($52k).
Does Council of Literary Magazines and Presses fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Council of Literary Magazines and Presses?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Poetry Foundation, Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation.
Where is Council of Literary Magazines and Presses based?: Council of Literary Magazines and Presses is based in NY.