Minnesota · Nonprofit
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,140,486 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($360,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $842k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $675k
What Coffee House Press Inc does
Mission
Coffee house presss creates new spaces for audiences and artists to interact, inspiring readers and enriching communties by expanding the definition of what literature is, what it can do, and who it belongs to.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Coffee house press' largest program service is the publication of books and maintaining a backlist of over 450 works. In the fall of 2023, there were 12 books published:2 novels (1 translation), 1 novella, 1 poetry, 1 anthology, 1 essay, (plotinus). In spring of 2024, the 5 publications included: 1 poetry, 1 anthology, 1 novella, 1 non-fiction, 1 essay.our growing list of authors includes african americans, asian americans, native americans, latin americans, european americans, spanish and basque authors, as well as a growing list of european authors.
$751,050 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $751,050.
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.
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 $787k to $1.1M (+42%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 12% · 2020 10% · 2021 24% · 2022 22% · 2023 7% · 2024 13% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Linda Ewing
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $59k → $54k.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 29% · 2019 44% · 2020 37% · 2021 30% · 2022 48% · 2023 53% — 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
14% of COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
80% of COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $490k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$490k
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 COFFEE HOUSE 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% 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 COFFEE HOUSE 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 COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC?
- COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,140,486 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($360,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,140,486 in grants to COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COFFEE HOUSE PRESS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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