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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,028 to it, the largest being THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$270k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$158k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What American Society of Journalist and Authors Foundation does

Mission

To provide educational opportunities for independent nonfiction writers and authors; to promote and defend the profession of independent nonfiction writers and authors; to exchange information and enhance awareness of the profession of independent nonfiction writers and authors; to assist and help independent nonfiction writers that are in severe financial distress and during times of national emergency.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Annual and regional conferences are held to provide educationalprograms for the foundation's membership of independent nonfictionwriters and authors.

    $26,999 spent$64,607 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  2. The foundation has established a writers emergency assistance fund(weaf) that helps established independent nonfiction writers andauthors by providing and awarding funding to eligible individuals whoare unable to work due to illness, disability, a natural disaster,severe financial distress, or an extraordinary professional crisis.

    $10,300 spentof which $10,300 as grants
    12% of program spending
  3. The foundation sets aside certain reserve funds (eisenberg, robinsonand roth) to provide awards to certain qualified individuals based onachievement.

  4. Public support and grants are received to provide awards and grants to certain selected individuals for educational purposes.

    $50,105 spent
    57% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $87,404.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($240k) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($375k)2021 Revenue 168 ($404k) Expenses 212 ($382k) Net assets 82 ($308k)2022 Revenue 161 ($386k) Expenses 287 ($519k) Net assets 51 ($190k)2023 Revenue 137 ($329k) Expenses 165 ($298k) Net assets 61 ($228k)2024 Revenue 113 ($270k) Expenses 190 ($343k) Net assets 42 ($158k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (113)Expenses (190)Net assets (42)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $410k to $316k (−23%).

$439k
$410k
$316k
$322k
$262k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’20
$22k
’21
−$133k
’22
$31k
’23
−$72k
’24
3.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20202021202220232024
Listed1414101111
Joined·+2+0+4+4
No longer listed·2434
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40k to it.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

25% of spending goes to programs.

Program 25%Management 75%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Society of Journalists & Authors Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,028 to it, the largest being THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,028 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION?
THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALIST AND AUTHORS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing