California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY
CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,675 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS A HAZAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($53,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $0
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $226k
What California Literary & Prologue Society does
Mission
The society was organized to develop an appreciation of literature and history through promoting and fostering a consideration of authors, poets, and their works by conducting meetings and presentations by authors and poets to encourage a mutual exchange of ideas and understandings with a view toward increasing literary awareness.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
There were no speaker events in 2023 as the society has discontinued operations and is in the process of dissolving.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
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 2019 to 2020, from $422k to $301k (−29%).
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.
0% of CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $27k.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY’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
CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 97% · 2019 94% · 2020 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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 FY2020, 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
98% of CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY
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 California
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
94%
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 CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY: 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 CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY?
- CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,675 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS A HAZAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($53,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $82,675 in grants to CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY?
- THE MORRIS A HAZAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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