Alaska · Nonprofit
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $132k
What Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts does
Mission
Supporting Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR), Alaska's flagship literary arts journal for 40+ years.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts (CNLA) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose sole mission is focused on promoting Alaska Quarterly Review, an organization with the mission to foster narrative and lyric arts which include live and online public forums, readings, conversations, and craft talk presentations as well as the presentation of literary works in two acclaimed book-length editions each year in both print and digital formats. As Alaska Quarterly Review's umbrella organization, all donations, grants, and revenue go to CNLA and then are used to in support of Alaska Quarterly Reviews outreach, and online presence and publications. The revenue reported on this 990 represent the essential and successful role that CNLA has played in 2025 in serving its mission of promoting Alaska Quarterly Review.
$53,795 spentof which $15,000 as grants$29,552 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $53,795.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $143k to $132k (−8%).
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.
67% of Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $13k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts’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
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 3 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 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
Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts is better cushioned than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts: 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 Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts?
- Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,000 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $80,000 in grants to Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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