Texas · Nonprofit
Deep Vellum Publishing Inc
Deep Vellum Publishing Inc (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,448,978 to it, the largest being THE ADDY FOUNDATION ($325,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $357k
What Deep Vellum Publishing Inc does
Mission
To bring the world into conversation through literature and enhance the open exchange of stories and ideas across cultures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, Deep Vellum turned 10, and this year we fulfilled our mission to bring the world into conversation in more ways than ever before. For 10 years we have bridged the literary gap between international writers, English language readers, and our local literary community here in Dallas, Texas. In 2023, as our authors were awarded international prizes of the highest order, as our community members gathered to reflect on the history of our city and to use literature to envision a better future, we continued to give a platform to international and local writers and readers alike. We celebrated by publishing 57 new translated books, originally written in 12 languages by authors from 14 countries. Our Norwegian author Jon Fosse, who has published 7 books through our Dalkey Archive Press imprint, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature! We hosted and organized over 100 literary events at home in Dallas and beyond. We held our first-ever poetry festival at Dallas's Klyde Warren Park, where children and adults rubbed elbows with the best poets in North Texas to celebrate National Poetry Month. 6 Deep Vellum writers appeared at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. Ukrainian author…
$1,188,554 spentof which $2,788 as grants$539,719 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,188,554.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.7M (+73%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 32% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of Deep Vellum Publishing Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $125k → $361k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Deep Vellum Publishing Inc’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
Deep Vellum Publishing Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 Deep Vellum Publishing Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 80% · 2020 47% · 2021 17% · 2022 50% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Deep Vellum Publishing Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
93% of Deep Vellum Publishing Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $704k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
Deep Vellum Publishing Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Deep Vellum Publishing Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $117k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$117k
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 Deep Vellum Publishing 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Deep Vellum Publishing 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 Deep Vellum Publishing Inc?
- Deep Vellum Publishing Inc (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,448,978 to it, the largest being THE ADDY FOUNDATION ($325,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Deep Vellum Publishing Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,448,978 in grants to Deep Vellum Publishing Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Deep Vellum Publishing Inc?
- THE ADDY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Deep Vellum Publishing Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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