Vermont · Nonprofit
BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC
BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,150 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($21,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Brattleboro Literary Festival Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Brattleboro Literary Festival is to unite readers in the celebration of diverse ideas books and the power of words that will enhance the cultural vibrancy of Brattleboro and beyond. It was a celebration in 2023 featuring more than 60 authors both award-winning and emerging October 13-15 with books on the theme of The story of Us. Authors included Tracy Kidder Jonathan Rosen Will Schwalbe Kelly Link Andre Dubus III Jean Kwok Holly Black Ann Hood Martha McPhee Nikil Goyal and Chen Chen. All events were free and open to the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
On October 19-21 the 23rd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival featuring more than 40 authors both award-winning and emerging converged on downtown Brattleboro We believe that books are an invitation to learn about ourselves and others; to create meaning and community in a time of extraordinary changea beacon of light in dark times Featured authors included Jeffrey Rosen Moon Unit Zappa Sigrid Nunez Amitava Kumar Roxanne Robinson Tyriek White MT Anderson Sunil Amrith Gary Gulman Julia Phillips Marie Helene Bertino Pablo Medina January Gill ONeil and many more.
$41,685 spent100% of program spendingMonthly virtual event the Literary Cocktail Hour borne out of the pandemic with the idea of people congregating online around books and authors attracting those who were housebound featuring 1-4 authors 2023 had events with former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss Adam Goodheart Fred Pearce Kathryn Ma and more.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,685.
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 2022 to 2023, from $674 to $38k (+5491%).
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.
97% of BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $35k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL 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
BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 61% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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
BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL 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 BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC?
- BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,150 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($21,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $63,150 in grants to BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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