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The Academy of American Poets Inc

To encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of american poetry by providing fellowships for poets of proven merit, by granting scholarships, awards and prizes for poetic achievement, and by other such means as the board of directors may devise and determine.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.7MEducation$264kYouth Development$145kScience & Tech$50kRecreation & Sports$25kHousing & Shelter$10kCommunity Improvement$10kHuman Services$8k
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $504,044 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,317,561 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,813,517 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
$17,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODLAND PATTERN BOOK CENTER$97,200
KUNDIMAN INC$39,600
CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC$38,500
BEYOND BAROQUE LITERARY ARTS CENTER$28,600
MASSACHUSETTS POETRY OUTREACH PROJECT$21,100
THE LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION$21,100
ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP$21,100
YOUTH SPEAKS INC$21,100
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$21,100
MIZNA$21,100
POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA$21,100
PONGO POETRY PROJECT$20,000
URBAN WORD NYC$17,500
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$10,000
WRITERS LEAGUE OF TEXAS$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SER: $8k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
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VA
MD
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TX
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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 — 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 34 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
47

Total granted

$2.4M
$712k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+15%

Still filing today

94%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

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

  • WOODLAND PATTERN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $293k · revenue +45%
  • CC
    CAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $234k · revenue +562%
  • UW
    URBAN WORD NYC INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CH
    COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -19%
  • TP
    TWIN POETS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • TC
    TINA CHANG LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

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.

1
Poetry Flash

Poetry flash builds community through literature

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2
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
3
The Poetry Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Gulf Coast - a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts

To publish and promote literature.

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5
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
6
Public Poetry

Mission Statement - Public Poetry showcases the enduring power of poetry, conveys poetry's range, relevance and reach throughout the year. We uphold diverse voices, layer multiple genres, encourage collaborative possibilities, and provide…

Arts & Culture
7
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
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8
Host Literary

Host literary (dba: host publications) is an award-winning independent publisher located in austin, texas. devoted to our mission to elevate systemically marginalized writers, host publications creates literary events and publishes poetry…

Arts & Culture
9
Catamaran Literary Reader

Publish a quarterly literary journal, offer educational programs to the public related to the journal, and run a poetry competition, resulting in the publishing of a book of poetry by a West Coast poet.

Arts & Culture
10
Republic of Letters

The Organization principally exists to (a) cultivate writing that extends the literary tradition while enabling the public to confront the challenges of the present; (b) develop literature using meticulous craft and discerning curation…

Arts & Culture
11
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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12
Literary Freedom Project Inc

The Literary Freedom Project creates free, open spaces for communities to engage with books through weekly discussions and presentations. Our programs promote literacy, celebrate the diverse cultures of the Bronx and NYC, and foster…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poets and Writers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sibling Rivalry Press 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPublic Library OperationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Domestic Violence ServicesCommunity Arts CentersAffordable Housing Construc…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersYouth Development ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity College Foundatio…
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/108
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,457

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.

04the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/96
Grantees still filing
57/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOODLAND PATTERN INC — $292,860 · Arts & CultureWOODLAND PATTERN INCKUNDIMAN INC — $152,390 · Arts & CultureKUNDIMAN INCSplit This Rock Inc — $99,120 · Arts & CultureSplit This Rock IncMASSPOETRY INC — $85,420 · Arts & CultureCOPPER CANYON PRESS — $85,000 · Arts & CultureZOEGLOSSIA INC — $79,520 · Arts & CultureLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION — $75,500 · Arts & CultureBeyond Baroque Foundation — $71,500 · Arts & CultureMIZNA — $70,220 · Arts & CultureO MIAMI INC — $64,550 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 Ink — $60,000 · Arts & CulturePOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $57,450 · Arts & Culture+27 more — $433,394 · Arts & Culture+27 moreCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC — $234,340 · EducationCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INCURBAN WORD NYC INC — $154,670 · EducationURBAN WORD NYC INCUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $82,900 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $53,870 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FO…University of Arizona Foundation — $53,500 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Found…826 National Inc — $50,000 · Education826 National IncJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 · Education+7 more — $105,000 · Education+7 moreAmerican Literary Translators Association — $50,000 · OtherAmerican Literary Tra…BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA — $50,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF T…COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC — $50,000 · OtherCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS IN…TWIN POETS — $50,000 · OtherTWIN POETSTINA CHANG LLC — $50,000 · OtherTINA CHANG LLCTHE FENNELLY-FRANKLIN CORP — $50,000 · OtherTHE FENNELLY-FRANKLIN…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY — $45,100 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYALICE JAMES POETRY COOPERATIVE — $40,000 · OtherALICE JAMES POETRY CO…UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $26,650 · Other+18 more — $197,400 · Other+18 moreYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $95,220 · Youth DevelopmentPongo Publishing Inc — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHERN WORD INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHWORKS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWords Without Borders Inc — $8,000 · InternationalHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES — $7,500 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,626,924Education$771,780Other$609,150Youth Development$172,220Community Improvement$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000International$8,000Human Services$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOODLAND PATTERN INC — $292,860 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetCAVE CANEM FOUNDATION INC — $234,340 over 6y, 12% of budgetURBAN WORD NYC INC — $154,670 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetKUNDIMAN INC — $152,390 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetSplit This Rock Inc — $99,120 over 4y, 15% of budgetYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $95,220 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC — $85,420 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCOPPER CANYON PRESS — $85,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $82,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZOEGLOSSIA INC — $79,520 over 5y, 27% of budgetLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION — $75,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBeyond Baroque Foundation — $71,500 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetMIZNA — $70,220 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetO MIAMI INC — $64,550 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetChapter 510 Ink — $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $57,450 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $53,870 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $53,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC — $50,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Literary Translators Association — $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCOFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget826 National Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALICE JAMES POETRY COOPERATIVE — $40,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPongo Publishing Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYUBA SUTTER REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL — $32,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNuyorican Poets Cafe Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBrooklyn Book Festival Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWordplay Cincy — $25,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE — $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBOWERY ARTS AND SCIENCE LTD — $24,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC — $23,450 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGET LIT - WORDS IGNITE INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN WORD INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Watering Hole Poetry Organization — $17,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBOA EDITIONS LTD — $17,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBucknell University — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity of Writers — $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD — $14,400 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTHWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCalifornia Poets in the Schools — $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL POETRY SERIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budget
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 FoundationHawthornden FoundationNational Book Foundat…Just Buffalo Literary…Lannan FoundationJerome Foundation IncCalifornia HumanitiesThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Ford FoundationFederation of State H…Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Youth Speaks Inc
The Poetry FoundationIL95.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Poetry Foundation · Hawthornden Foundation · National Book Foundation Inc · Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc · Lannan Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · California Humanities · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Federation of State Humanities Councils · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Youth Speaks Inc

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 organization The Academy of American Poets Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Florida Humanities Council Inc — 100% of income from government
  • CityLit Project Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Aspect Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • O Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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