Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC
GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,002 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($313,350). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $454k
- Net assets
- $350k
What Gloucester Writers Center Inc does
Mission
The program of the gloucester writers center will include a library focused on the works of and about olson, ferrini, and related writers; a residency for visiting writers; public programs including lectures, films, and discussions of the work of olson, ferrini, and others; writing workshops; and outreach to young writers and readers. Support will be solicited from foundations, government agencies and the general public.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The writer-in-residence program provides space for visiting writers from around the world to work in gloucester, as well as the opportunity to share ideas and work-in-progress with local writers and audience.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe maud/olson library is a singular scholarly resource bequeathed by collector/scholar ralph maud to the stewardship of the gloucester writers center. It is the most complete, and most thoroughly annotated gathering of olson source material in the world.aside from its importance to scholars, the maud/olson library is a community resource. It is a focal point for gloucester's citizens to meet and exchange ideas, as well as to learn more about the poet who immortalized their town. Because of the vast range of olson's sources, it is also a magnificent educational tool. High school and college students (several groups are already making use of the library), as well as people interested in olson and in poetry, can see how a major poet made use of his sources.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe community education programs offered by gwc serves veterans, women of limited means, students, and the community at large by offering weekly classes, and ongoing workshops run throughout the year by our dedicated staff of teachers. Offerings have reached hundreds of participants this past year and included classes in fiction writing, playwriting, writing for publication, developing a writing practice, poetry, writing exercises for children, mentoring high school students etc. Collaborations with other organizations this year have included running writing workshops at cape ann museum, the office for veterans services, maritime gloucester, pathways for children, and gloucester high school.
$0 spent0% of program spendingIn addition to the three major programs, the gloucester writers center provides various programs to the community.
$12,269 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,269.
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 $184k to $291k (+59%).
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 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $63k → $105k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER 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
GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 79% · 2021 64% · 2022 61% · 2023 96% — 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
50% of GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
92% of GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER 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 $38k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$27k
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.
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In Massachusetts
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC?
- GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,002 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($313,350). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $454,002 in grants to GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $313,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 13 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