Texas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC
FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fredericksburg Social Turn Vereinlocal
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio match
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD 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
FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
100% 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 FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC.
“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
69% of FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 303 organizations that share them.
- Fredericksburg Social Turn VereinlocalTX · funds 16 organizations near you
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Academy of American Poets Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthornden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James V Tesoriero Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lois Lenski Covey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $32,500 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE WRITTEN WORD 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing