Georgia · Nonprofit
ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB
ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,420 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($28,920). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $402k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $451k
What Atlanta Writers Club does
Mission
To support writers in their craft. The Atlanta Writers Club provides educational opportunities, conferences, meetups and other group activities to ensure that writers of all genres have the resources they need to be successful in their efforts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2025, AWC began a mentorship program to team up experienced writers with new ones. The goal of this program is to help new writers learn what they need to know to finish their manuscript and find an agent or a publisher.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Monthly meetings with 2 speakers and interactions by genre type. Attendance averages over 125. These meetings were hosted online from March 2020 until February 2022. The organization began meeting in person again in March 2022.
$15,519 spent6% of program spendingSpring and Fall Writers Conferences providing workshops, manuscript and query letter critiques, editor and agent interactions and pitch opportunities. Approximately 275 writers, editors, agents and others attend each conference. The Atlanta Self-Publishing Conference is held in the Spring and teaches writers how to publish and promote their own work. This conference attracts 130 attendees.
$145,801 spent$220,663 earned by the program59% of program spendingWorkshops and Retreats during the year covering topics of interest to writers. These included character and plot development, getting your work published and how to manage your social media. Attendance averages 50 writers per workshop.
$15,505 spent$29,816 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe Annual AWC Writers Contest makes awards in three categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry. Three independent judges are paid to review submitted manuscripts. No entrance fee is charged. Approximately 80 writers enter this contest each year.
$2,747 spent1% of program spendingAtlanta Writers Club supports Book Festivals in Atlanta and Decatur
$7,750 spent3% of program spendingThe Townsend Award celebrates the best new author in Georgia and is held every other ear.
$34,476 spentof which $17,674 as grants$17,998 earned by the program14% of program spendingAWC Mentorship program teams experienced authors with new ones to help them navigate the processes required to see their books in print.
$8,050 spent$12,150 earned by the program3% of program spendingTransaction Processing Fees for all Programs
$15,696 spent6% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,544.
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 2024 to 2025, from $424k to $555k (+31%).
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.
26% of ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
George Weinstein
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB’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
ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
98% 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 ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB.
“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
98% of ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.
Against its field
ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB: 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 ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB?
- ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,420 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($28,920). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,420 in grants to ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB.
- Who is the largest funder of ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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