New York · Nonprofit
COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES
COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,551,398 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,511,833). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Council of Literary Magazines and Presses does
Mission
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses serves one of the most active segments of american arts and culture: the independent publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose. The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses accomplish the backstage work of american literature: discovering new writers, supporting mid-career writers, publishing the creative voices of communities underrepresented in the main stream commercial culture, and preserving literature for future readers by keeping books in print.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Technical assistance to independent literary publishers: providing technical assistance to independent literary publishers is our core program. It includes several regrant programs, one on one meetings with publishers to help with things including marketing, fundraising, and other publishing and nonprofit issues, a regular series of virtual and live roundtables, a series of techincal assistance publications and products, and a marketing program to encourage the use of literary journals in course curricula. Clmp's technical assistance program serves more than 500 small publishers annually.
$1,166,740 spentof which $868,675 as grants$216,488 earned by the program79% of program spendingMembership service: clmp provides services to more than 500 independent literary publishers. We conduct an annual conference, moderate and archive three listserves, compile an annual directory of independent literary publishers and work to coordinate publishers to share resources, network, and come together as a single community serving literature.
$152,900 spent10% of program spendingPublic programs: clmp's public programs include an annual literary writers conference, national small press and literary magazine fairs (including readings and panel discussions), and reading / discussion events such as the "periodically speaking" series at the new york public library. Many of these programs are then made availale to a larger public through the web, in written documents and in audio/video archives.
$154,551 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,474,191.
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 2021 to 2022, from $860k to $2.3M (+172%).
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 46% · 2020 27% · 2021 12% · 2022 6% · 2023 20% · 2024 22% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Nicole Dewey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $30k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES’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
COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 95% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 58% — 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
100% of COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.
Government funding COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $737k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$737k
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 COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES: 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 COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES?
- COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,551,398 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,511,833). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,551,398 in grants to COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,511,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL OF LITERARY MAGAZINES AND PRESSES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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