New York · Nonprofit
Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press
Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,505 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($162,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press does
Mission
Ether Sea Projects D/B/A Litmus Press publishes innovative poetry, prose, and formally experimental writing from around the world. We champion avant-garde legacies through our stewardship of foundational feminist predecessors of small press publishing and the creation of resources that deepen literacy and appreciation of complex works. In cultivating a transnational and diasporic literary landscape that resists aesthetic, generic, and geopolitical boundaries, we envision a future that everyone can inhabit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Book Publications: Print Books published (4)1. Controlled Demolition: A Work in Four Books by Ammiel Alcalay.2. The Unlikeness of Things by Virginie Poitrasson, translated by Michelle Noteboom.3. Erode by Biswamit Dwibedy.4. Yes, I Am A Destroyer by Mira Mattar.Open Poetics Digital Edition (1)Dead Youth, or The Leaks by Joyelle McSweeney.
$141,105 spent$34,775 earned by the program70% of program spendingPublic Events:1. Viscera Book Launch with Mark Tardi, Malgorzata Myk, and Natalia Malek, Housing Works Bookstore NYC.2. Free Writing Workshop with Mark Tardi, Malgorzata Myk, and Natalia Malek, Greenpoint Public Library NYC.3. Asia & Haiti Book Launch with Will Alexander, 192 Books NYC.4. Embroideries Book Launch with Burcu Sahin and Youmna Chlala, Unnameable Books NYC.5. Free Translation Workshop with Burcu Sahin and Kira Josefsson, Litmus Press Studio NYC.6. Controlled Demolition Launch with Ammiel Alcalay and Nasser Rabah, Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA.7. Controlled Demolition Book Launch with Ammiel Alcalay, CUNY, NYC.8. Online Book Launch for 3 Books with Biswamit Dwibedy, Virginie Poitrasson, Michelle Noteboom, and Mira Mattar.
$40,316 spent$8,694 earned by the program20% of program spendingAccessibility -- educational access to out-of-print titles & new teaching resources available for free via our website. We launched a new digital-critical edition in our open poetics series, a collaborative project with cuny's digital humanities program, manifold scholarship. We provided book donations to organizations such as art resources transfer (distribution to underserved communities), housing works, and st. Marks poetry project. We collaborated with the poulin project as publisher-in-residence and facilitated free, public, writing workshops at brooklyn public libraries.
$20,159 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $201,580.
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 2021 to 2022, from $57k to $27k (−54%).
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: 2023 38% · 2024 16% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $53k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press’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
Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 75% · 2023 81% — 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
98% of Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press: 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 Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press?
- Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,505 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($162,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $324,505 in grants to Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $162,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ether Sea Projects Inc DBA Litmus Press 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.
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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 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