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The Poetry Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
179
Grants FY2024
162
Organizations funded FY2023
66%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 366
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
35
Total assets, FY2024
$313M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 66% of the organizations The Poetry Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving167$4.2M52%
FY2023162$3.5M66%
FY2022366$4.3M69%
FY2021259$2.0M82%
FY202030$1.3M47%
FY2019252$1.3M77%
FY2018242$1.4M78%
FY2017244$1.2Mn/a
99% 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$14MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.2MReligion$743kCommunity Improvement$436kYouth Development$310kScience & Tech$289kCrime & Legal$246kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

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

Show all 391 grantees
All grantees of The Poetry Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mid Atlantic Arts Inc$501,71526%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$400,00020%
Verse Video Education$360,000518%
United States Artists Inc$330,00044%
Woodland Pattern Inc$325,000611%
Cave Canem Foundation Inc$265,00065%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$225,00010%
University of Nebraska Foundation$216,25020%
The Academy of American Poets Inc$209,00072%
The Poetry Center$182,700616%
O Miami Inc$180,00057%
National Poetry Series Inc$180,00068%
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop$160,00048%
Court Theatre Fund$160,0005n/a
Community Literature Initiative$145,000415%
The Joffrey Ballet$140,00020%
Masspoetry Inc$137,50069%
Poetic Justice Inc$130,000320%
CityLit Project Inc$130,000329%
Third World Press Foundation Inc$127,500429%
The American Writers Museum$126,50031%
Near South Planning Board$121,00065%
Steppenwolf Theatre Company$115,00030%
Kuumba Lynx$110,00042%
Writers Without Margins Inc$105,000355%
Insideout Literary Arts Project$105,00043%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$100,00030%
Split This Rock Inc$100,000315%
Urban Word NYC Inc$100,00056%
Chicago Shakespeare Theater$100,00011%
Kundiman Inc$100,00035%
Fusion Partnership Inc$95,00030%
Mizna$92,500412%
Pen American Center Inc$90,00030%
Resilience Partners NFP$90,00032%
Radical Reversal$90,000298%
Young Chicago Authors$90,0002n/a
Contextos Nfp$90,00041%
826chi Inc$87,50044%
Poetry Society of America$87,00054%
The Poetry Project Ltd$85,00034%
Noemi Press Inc$85,000448%
Lambda Literary Foundation$85,00043%
The Diatribe Inc$85,00027%
The Chicago High School for the Arts$82,00020%
California Poets in the Schools$80,000211%
Poets House Inc$80,00033%
University of Arizona Foundation$80,00030%
The Beautiful Project Inc$80,000213%
Torch Literary Arts$80,000216%
Beyond Baroque Foundation$79,50046%
Teachers & Writers Collaborative Inc$78,00036%
Youth Speaks Inc$75,00032%
Bamboo Ridge Press$70,000418%
Kearny Street Workshop Incorporated$70,000315%
Ugly Duckling Presse Ltd$67,50048%
Smithsonian Institution$65,00010%
Burst Into Books$65,00026%
Lookingglass Theatre Company$65,00021%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia$60,00021%
Street Poets Inc$60,00021%
Snow City Arts Foundation$60,00052%
The Guild Complex$59,000429%
Nebraska Writers Collective$57,50037%
Under the Volcano International Inc$55,000220%
826 New Orleans$55,00028%
Alice James Poetry Cooperative$55,00039%
Reading Between the Lines Nfp$55,000321%
Poets in Need$55,000341%
ChiArts Foundation$50,0001n/a
Words Beats and Life Inc$50,00031%
Sisters in Cinema NFP$50,00014%
Hub City Writers Project$50,00024%
Lugar Comun Inc$50,000218%
Ragdale Foundation$50,00012%
Boa Editions Ltd$50,00038%
Board of Trustees of Illinois State University$50,0001n/a
Project&$50,0001n/a
Community Partners$50,00020%
The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc$50,000214%
The Watering Hole Poetry Organization$50,000225%
Make-Believe Association$50,000125%
Brooklyn Arts Council Inc$50,00031%
The Museum of Language Arts Inc$50,00011%
L a Theatre Works$46,00013%
Association of Writers & Writing Programs$45,97531%
Wordplay Cincy$45,00037%
Freedom Reads Inc$45,00010%
Taller Comunidad la Goyco Inc$45,00014%
The Ruth Page Foundation$45,0002n/a
Words Without Borders Inc$45,00023%
Gemini Series Inc$45,00033%
American Poetry Museum$42,500333%
Crownkeepers$40,0002n/a
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation Inc$40,000224%
Copper Canyon Press$40,00021%
Fractured Atlas Inc$40,00020%
Zoeglossia Inc$40,000419%
Floating Museum NFP$40,00011%
National Book Foundation Inc$40,00021%
Northeastern Illinois University Foundation$40,00040%
James Madison University Foundation Inc$40,00010%
Nuyorican Poets Cafe Inc$40,00021%
Milkweed Editions Inc$40,00011%
Philadelphia Contemporary$40,00015%
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network$40,00016%
Illinois Arts Alliance$37,59061%
Kent State University$37,5003n/a
Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc$37,50020%
Desert Island Supply Co$35,000210%
Artes de Mexico En Utah$35,000212%
Public Media Institute$35,00023%
Puha Hubiya$35,0002n/a
Asian American Writers Workshop Inc$35,00022%
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc$35,00021%
826 Michigan Inc$35,00024%
DC Creative Writing Workshop Inc$35,000218%
Love Now Media Inc$35,00014%
Sundress Publications$35,0002n/a
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center$35,000214%
Deep Center Incorporated$35,00021%
Illinois Humanities Council Inc$35,00030%
World Poetry Books$35,000116%
Shoutmousepressinc$35,00024%
Center for Book Arts Incorporated 1974$35,00013%
City of Asylum$32,50021%
Eco Theo Collective$30,000142%
Hope At Hand Inc$30,00028%
Brooklyn Public Library$30,00030%
Ny Writers Coalition Inc$30,00025%
Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc$30,00022%
Art From Ashes Incorporated$30,00025%
City of Chicago$30,0001n/a
The Dreamyard Project Inc$30,00020%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$30,00010%
Nightboat Books Inc$30,00017%
Breathe Ink$30,000131%
Community Building Art Works$30,00036%
Writers Theatre Inc$30,00011%
Path With Art$30,00020%
Artistyear$30,00021%
Northwest New Mexico Arts Council$30,000212%
The Thurber House$29,00023%
Missoula Writing Collaborative$27,50025%
Poetry Society of New York Inc$27,500211%
Literary Arts Inc$26,25030%
Bronzeville Black Chicagoan Historical Society$26,0001n/a
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame$26,000410%
Arts Area$25,000140%
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company$25,0001n/a
Arts & Literature Laboratory Inc$25,00022%
Girls Write Now Inc$25,00021%
Grantmakers in the Arts$25,00011%
Alegria Bilingual Bookstores & Arts Collective Corp$25,0001n/a
Make Literary Productions Nfp$25,000125%
House Theatre of Chicago$25,0001n/a
Foglifter Press$25,000213%
Southern Word Inc$25,00014%
The George Washington University$24,00020%
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc$24,00010%
Poetry Forum Inc$22,5003n/a
Arts Council of Princeton$22,00021%
Fonograf Editions$21,0003n/a
Motor City Sings$20,0001n/a
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$20,00010%
Guernica Inc$20,000119%
Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District$20,00011%
Twelve Literary Arts$20,0001n/a
Parachute Literary Arts Inc$20,0001n/a
Mano Amiga Sm$20,00014%
Cavankerry Press Ltd$20,00028%
American Library Association$20,00010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$20,0002n/a
Pen Parentis Ltd$20,000120%
Bowery Arts and Science Ltd$20,000124%
St Louis Poetry Center$20,0002n/a
Cambridge Community Center Inc$20,00012%
Museum of Contemporary Art$20,00010%
People and Stories Gente y Cuentos$20,00017%
Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc$20,00011%
Ravinia Festival Association$20,00010%
Small Press Distribution Inc$20,00013%
John Walt Foundation Inc$20,000114%
Words to Power$20,000112%
Breakbread Literacy Project$20,000287%
Before Columbus Foundation$20,0003n/a
Lake George Opera Festival Association Inc$20,00012%
Good Journey Development Foundation$18,000116%
Southern Fried Poetry Slam Inc$18,0001n/a
The Lab Sf$17,50022%
Writers in the Schools$15,20011%
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts$15,00026%
Center for the Art of Translation$15,00011%
Flood Editions Nfp$15,0001n/a
Kalamazoo Poetry Festival$15,0001n/a
Imagine for All$15,0001n/a
Poets and Writers Inc$15,00010%
Radius of Arab American Writers Inc$15,0001n/a
Griot Collective of West Tennessee$15,0001n/a
Sinister Wisdom Inc$15,000112%
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for$15,00011%
Victory Gardens Theater$15,00010%
Injustice Watch NFP$15,00012%
Community Justice Project Inc$15,00011%
Prison and Neighborhood Arts-Education Project$15,00011%
Community-Word Project Inc$15,00011%
Alternative Field Inc$15,0001n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$14,65010%
Hips Road Inc$14,00011%
Haleakala Inc$13,50011%
Chicago Connected$13,2001n/a
Indiana Writers Center Inc$10,40024%
San Antonio Festival of Books Inc$10,00011%
916 Ink$10,00011%
Lucky Jefferson$10,0001n/a
Young Authors Greenhouse Inc$10,00013%
Mighty Writers$10,00010%
Tieton Arts and Humanities$10,00014%
National Youth Foundation$10,0001n/a
Forefront$10,00010%
Sarabande Books Inc$10,00013%
The Midwest Writing Center$10,00018%
Hai Foundation$10,0001n/a
Intersection for the Arts$10,00010%
The Writers Center$10,00021%
Yourwords STL$10,000119%
The Litquake Foundation$10,00012%
Trustees of Boston University$10,00010%
Public Poetry$10,000115%
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc$10,00010%
Classical Music Chicago$10,00021%
Pongo Publishing Inc$10,00023%
Brick Street Poetry Inc$10,0001n/a
Futurepoem Inc$10,00019%
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc$10,00010%
Poetry Northwest$10,0001n/a
Flint Zeta Foundation$10,0001n/a
Autumn House Press$10,00017%
Chicago Humanities Festival$9,00020%
Green Linden Press$6,8001n/a
Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press$6,50013%
Visual Art Exchange Inc$6,50021%
Tupelo Press Inc$6,40012%
Counter Path Press$6,0001n/a
Dos Madres Press Inc$6,000124%
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc$6,00010%
Grid Books Inc$6,00016%
Kore Press Inc$6,000135%
Chax Press Inc$6,00019%
Du - Disegno Universale$5,5001n/a
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc$5,25020%
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago$5,00010%
Chicago Latino Theater Alliance$5,0001n/a
Chicago Public Library Foundation$5,00010%
Belladonna Series Inc$5,00018%
International Womens Writing Guild$5,00013%
Life Journeys Writers Club Inc$5,0001n/a
America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores$5,00010%
Chapman University$5,00010%
Page 15 Inc$5,00011%
Canopy Canopy Canopy Inc$5,00011%
Artspace$5,00017%
Access Philanthropy Charities$5,00010%
University of Baltimore Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Dove Mission Initiative Inc$5,0001n/a
Community College of Vermont - Montpelier$5,0001n/a
Music in Common Inc$5,00014%
Beacon Education Inc$5,00010%
Independent Arts & Media$5,00010%
Tioga County Council on the Arts Inc Tioga Arts Council$5,00014%
Silverfish Review Press$4,5001n/a
Rose Metal Press Inc$4,20013%
Word Works Inc$4,0001n/a
Passager$4,00014%
Inprint Inc$4,00010%
Aunt Lute Foundation$4,00012%
Drunken Boat$3,5001n/a
Perugia Press$3,50016%
Montana Arts Council$3,0001n/a
Airlie Press$3,0001n/a
Sixteen Rivers Press Inc$3,0001n/a
Michigan Humanities Council$3,00010%
Atlanta Historical Society Inc$3,00010%
Huntington Theatre Co Inc$3,00010%
New Hampshire Learning Initiative Inc$3,00010%
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Inc$3,00010%
Springfield Area Arts Council$3,00013%
Arts South Dakota Inc$3,00010%
Mississippi Arts Commission$3,0001n/a
Honolulu Theatre for Youth$3,00010%
Nac Development Corporation$3,00010%
State of Arizona$3,0001n/a
Vermont Council on the Arts Inc$3,00010%
Triad Stage Inc$3,00010%
Kansas Athletics Inc$3,0001n/a
Media Alliance$2,75010%
Kenning Editions Nfp$2,5001n/a
Elj Editions Corp$2,5001n/a
Bordighera Incorporated$2,5001n/a
Punahou School$2,20030%
Arcadia Charter School$2,00020%
Bridge Nfp$2,0001n/a
Battle Ground Academy$2,00020%
Ashland University$2,00010%
Contratiempo Nfp$1,5001n/a
Washoe County School District$1,5002n/a
Michigan City Chamber Music Festival Inc$1,5001n/a
Antilles School Inc$1,40030%
Verge Books Nfp$1,2001n/a
Mid-Pacific Institute$1,10040%
West Anchorage High School$1,1003n/a
Whitefield Academy Inc$1,00010%
Le Jardin Academy Inc$1,00010%
Indiana Humanities Council Inc$1,00010%
Jackson Preparatory School Foundation$1,00020%
Chicago Book Expo Nfp$1,0001n/a
Hockaday School$1,00020%
Jacksonville Arts and Music School$1,00010%
St Mark's School of Texas$1,00010%
Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools$1,0002n/a
The Archer School for Girls Inc$1,00010%
St Francis Desales High School Inc$1,0002n/a
Portland Public Schools$7002n/a
St Anselms Abbey School Inc$7002n/a
Arizona School for the Arts$70020%
Legacy Preparatory Academy$50010%
Souhegan High School$5001n/a
Classical Christian Academy$50010%
Live Oak Academy$50010%
St Marys Academy$5001n/a
Lancaster Country Day School$50010%
Northside Independent School District$5001n/a
New Hanover County Schools$5001n/a
Owosso Public Schools$5001n/a
Natrona County Public Library$5001n/a
Indian Creek School Inc$50010%
Saint John's School$50010%
South Carolina Children's Theatre$50010%
Bosque School$50010%
Diocese of Wilmington Schools Inc$5001n/a
Gerstell Academy Inc$50010%
Xavier College Preparatory Roman Catholic High School Phoenix$5001n/a
The Blake School$50010%
Sioux Falls School District #49-5$5001n/a
Parkview Christian School$5001n/a
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts$50010%
Burlington County Institute of Technology$5001n/a
Fountain Valley School of Colorado$50010%
Wilmington Friends School Inc$5001n/a
All Saints Cathedral School Inc$50010%
Ethel Walker School Inc$50010%
Oregon Charter Academy$50010%
Burr & Burton Seminary$50010%
Tipton Catholic High School$5001n/a
Lexington Park Christian School Inc$50010%
Switchback Books Corporation$5001n/a
Xavier Charter School Inc$50010%
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc$50010%
George Stevens Academy$50010%
Valor Christian Schools$50010%
Guilford Co Public Schools$5001n/a
Willamette Primary$4002n/a
St Johnsbury Academy$40020%
Mt Healthy City School District$2001n/a
Thetford Academy$20010%
Cedar Falls Community School Dist$2001n/a
Sun Valley Community School Inc$20010%
Harbor City International School$20010%
Classical Academy$20010%
Charleston Co School of the Arts HS$2001n/a
St Stephens Academy$20010%
The Geneva School Inc$20010%
Sanford School$20010%
Kent Place School$20010%
Grace Christian School$20010%
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation$20010%
Christ School Inc$20010%
Delaware Valley Classical Schools Inc$20010%
Cullman Child Development Center$2001n/a
Holderness School$20010%
Barrington Christian Academy$2001n/a
Meridian Academy Inc$20010%
Herron High School Inc$2001n/a
Severance High School$2001n/a
Spartanburg Day School$20010%
St Patrick Academy$2001n/a
Brophy College Preparatory$2001n/a
Karl G Maeser Preparatory Academy$20010%
Washburn High School Foundation$20010%
Nerinx Hall High School$2001n/a
Pembroke Hill School$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 909 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Poetry Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMid Atlantic Arts Inc: $501,715 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVerse Video Education: $360,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $330,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetWoodland Pattern Inc: $325,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCave Canem Foundation Inc: $265,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetMinnesota Public Radio American Public Media: $225,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $216,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Academy of American Poets Inc: $209,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetThe Poetry Center: $182,700 over 6y, 16% of budgetO Miami Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetNational Poetry Series Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetMinnesota Prison Writing Workshop: $160,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetCommunity Literature Initiative: $145,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Joffrey Ballet: $140,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMasspoetry Inc: $137,500 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetPoetic Justice Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCityLit Project Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetThird World Press Foundation Inc: $127,500 over 4y, 29% of budgetThe American Writers Museum: $126,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNear South Planning Board: $121,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetSteppenwolf Theatre Company: $115,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKuumba Lynx: $110,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWriters Without Margins Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetInsideout Literary Arts Project: $105,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetChicago Theatre Group Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSplit This Rock Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetUrban Word NYC Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetChicago Shakespeare Theater: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKundiman Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMizna: $92,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetPen American Center Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetResilience Partners NFP: $90,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRadical Reversal: $90,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetContextos Nfp: $90,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budget826chi Inc: $87,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPoetry Society of America: $87,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetThe Poetry Project Ltd: $85,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetNoemi Press Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetLambda Literary Foundation: $85,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Diatribe Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetThe Chicago High School for the Arts: $82,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Poets in the Schools: $80,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPoets House Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Beautiful Project Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTorch Literary Arts: $80,000 over 2y, 16% of budget

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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 200.

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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 Academy of American Poets IncNY95.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Academy of American Poets Inc · National Book Foundation Inc · Council of Literary Magazines and Presses · Hawthornden Foundation · Just Buffalo Literary Center Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Illinois Humanities Council Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley 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 The Poetry Foundation

How much does The Poetry Foundation give?
The Poetry Foundation reported 179 grants totaling $4,207,326 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 366 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Poetry Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (72%), Education (8%), Health (6%).
Who are The Poetry Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mid Atlantic Arts Inc ($502k), Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc ($400k), Verse Video Education ($360k).
Does The Poetry Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Poetry Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Poetry Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Academy of American Poets Inc, National Book Foundation Inc, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Where is The Poetry Foundation based?
The Poetry Foundation is based in IL.

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 1304 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-PF 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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