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COPPER CANYON PRESS

COPPER CANYON PRESS (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,097,041 to it, the largest being LANNAN FOUNDATION ($840,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$1.3M
19/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Copper Canyon Press does

Mission

Copper Canyon Press educates the public in literary arts by publishing, translating and presenting poetry through books, audiotapes and live presentations. Copper Canyon Press has published more than 500 titles including works by nobel laureates, pulitzer-prize winners, and national book award winners. Copper Canyon Press publishes 15 to 20 books annually.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During fy24-25, Copper Canyon Press published 17 collections of poetry, including career retrospectives, debut books, hybrid visual art works, translations, and affordable paperback editions of previous hardcover books.

    $637,043 spent$787,307 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $637,043.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($960k)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 99 ($1.3M) Net assets 125 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 107 ($1.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.5M) Net assets 135 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 102 ($1.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.5M) Net assets 136 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 140 ($2.0M) Expenses 114 ($1.5M) Net assets 192 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 104 ($1.5M) Expenses 126 ($1.6M) Net assets 168 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 122 ($1.8M) Expenses 129 ($1.7M) Net assets 157 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 85 ($1.2M) Expenses 121 ($1.6M) Net assets 135 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 113 ($1.5M) Net assets 131 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (113)Net assets (131)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+22%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

55% of COPPER CANYON PRESS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$144k
’17
$151k
’18
$95k
’19
$7k
’20
$534k
’21
−$145k
’22
$90k
’23
−$345k
’24
−$32k
’25
5.3
months of
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.

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Listed141616151921202024
Joined·+3+1+0+5+2+0+2+6
No longer listed·11110122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $41k → $455k.

12 of 31 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 COPPER CANYON PRESS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

COPPER CANYON PRESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 COPPER CANYON PRESS.

40%
largest funder
58%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 29% · 2019 21% · 2020 60% · 2021 41% · 2022 60% · 2023 66% — 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

53% of COPPER CANYON PRESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

COPPER CANYON PRESS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 10 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
OH
CA
DE
NM
KS
MS
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $799k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COPPER CANYON PRESS is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding COPPER CANYON PRESS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $550k on record.

Federal$550k
grants $550kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$550k

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 COPPER CANYON PRESS

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 Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

44% of spending goes to programs.

Program 44%Management 21%Fundraising 35%

Governance

23
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COPPER CANYON PRESS?
COPPER CANYON PRESS (Washington) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,097,041 to it, the largest being LANNAN FOUNDATION ($840,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COPPER CANYON PRESS have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,097,041 in grants to COPPER CANYON PRESS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COPPER CANYON PRESS?
LANNAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $840,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COPPER CANYON PRESS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 31 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