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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,682 to it, the largest being THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $0
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $0
What American Society of Journalists and Authors Charitable Trust does
Mission
To provide educational programs and career resources for independent nonfiction and freelance writers. The society is affiliated with the american society of journalists & authors, inc. (asja), which is a professional association of independent nonfiction writers.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Annual and regional conferences are held to provide educational programs.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $399k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $45k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST’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 JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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 JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 79% · 2021 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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 JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Organizations like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Society of Journalists & Authors Inc · exempt
- American Society of Journalists and Authors Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST?
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,682 to it, the largest being THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $107,682 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST?
- THE ROSE AND DAVID DORTORT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS CHARITABLE TRUST 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 4 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