Virginia · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS
ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,037 to it, the largest being THE POETRY FOUNDATION ($45,975). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Association of Writers & Writing Programs does
Mission
Awp provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to writers, college & university creative writing programs, and writing organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual conference & bookfair: the awp conference is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, publishers of contemporary creative writing, and academic writing programs. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events and bookfair exhibitors, and four days of essential literary craft conversation and celebration.
$1,899,245 spent$2,071,663 earned by the program67% of program spendingMembership services: awp offers three types of memberships to serve our wide range of professional writers, students, educators, and more. The individual membership serves any individual who desires access to writing resources, programming, and events that awp provides. The academic membership serves creative writing programs at degree-granting accredited universities, colleges, and high schools. And the writing organization membership serves writing organizations that provide educational writing programming and events outside of academia.
$614,807 spent$626,017 earned by the program22% of program spendingPublications: for over five decades, the writer's chronicle has served as a leading source of articles, news, and information for writers, editors, students, and teachers of writing. Our digital magazine provides diverse and accessible insights into the art of writing. Each issue (six per year) features in-depth essays on craft, conversations with authors and publishing professionals, and explorations of current topics in the writing world.
$331,791 spent$110,079 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,845,843.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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 $4.4M to $5.0M (+14%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 7% · 2023 15% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
January Gill O'Neil
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $11k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS’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
ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 58% · 2021 52% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $560k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$560k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS?
- ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,037 to it, the largest being THE POETRY FOUNDATION ($45,975). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $141,037 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS?
- THE POETRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS & WRITING PROGRAMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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