New York · Nonprofit
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,902 to it, the largest being The Brandt Jackson Foundation ($305,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $702k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $590k
- Net assets
- $497k
What Bellevue Literary Press Inc does
Mission
Bellevue literary press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because we believe that science and the humanities are natural companions for understanding the human experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bellevue literary press publishes 6-8 books a year on average, with print runs of anywhere from 1,500-10,000 copies, including reprints of earlier-published titles as needed, and in any given year are working on books that will be published in future years. We use several methods to track the effectiveness of each activity. Overall sales, awards, and review coverage are key measures of success. For academic outreach, we monitor course adoptions, desk and examination copy requests, feedback from students and instructors, and reading group and curriculum guide downloads. Library sales, transacted primarily via the wholesaler baker & taylor and ebook vendors, are tracked during the project period. We also monitor sales for each title before and after specific marketing and promotional initiatives, including the number of digital review copies downloaded through edelweiss and all of the responses (preorders, reviews, libraryreads and indie next nominations, etc.) that result from those downloads.we use google analytics to measure engagement with our website and enewsletter campaigns. We measure social media engagement across all of our platforms: facebook, twitter, librarything,…
$378,628 spent$153,437 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $378,628.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $429k to $558k (+30%).
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: 2019 12% · 2020 9% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% · 2024 11% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Jan T Vilcek Md Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $24k → $32k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC’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
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 52% · 2020 62% · 2021 62% · 2022 40% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
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 BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC: 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 BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC?
- BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,902 to it, the largest being The Brandt Jackson Foundation ($305,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $589,902 in grants to BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC?
- The Brandt Jackson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing