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Pen American Center Inc

Pen american center, inc. Is an association of writers and others in the literary community working to defend free expression, advance literature, and foster international literary fellowship.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$144k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$17,750
Largest grant, FY2024
$72,223
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$46M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Pen American Center Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$144k60%
FY20233$564k100%
FY20171$8kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$544kEducation$120kPublic Benefit$53k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bard College$524,08020%
Ncf Freedom Inc$119,5002n/a
Factchequeado$17,75014%
Texas Tribune Inc$17,50010%
Conecta Arizona LLC$17,5001n/a
Deep Vellum Publishing Inc$12,00011%
Miami Dade Community Action & Human Services$7,5001n/a

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About Pen American Center Inc

How much does Pen American Center Inc give?
Pen American Center Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $144,473, out of $1,457,366 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pen American Center Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Education (17%), Public Benefit (7%).
Who are Pen American Center Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bard College ($524k), Ncf Freedom Inc ($120k), Factchequeado ($18k).
Does Pen American Center Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Pen American Center Inc based?
Pen American Center Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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