Texas · Nonprofit
Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,075 to it, the largest being The Brown Foundation Inc ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $295k
What Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts does
Mission
To publish and promote literature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Gulf Coast promotes and publishes quality literature in our local and national communities while teaching excellence in literary publishing to graduate and undergraduate students. We are committed to providing a balanced combination of literary approaches and voices. All of the editorial positions are two-year terms, ensuring a regular turnover in the specific personality and style of the journal. The journal is produced and distributed each April and October, reaching over 5,500 individuals and institutions. The journal publishes Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews, and Art, offering a creative venue for over 180 emerging and established writers and artists. Our readership of the print journal exceeds 3,000, with more coming to our ever-expanding website.
$156,424 spent$33,056 earned by the program85% of program spendingGulf Coast hosts or participates in several community-based literary events. The journal has enhanced its community presence with the Gulf Coast Reading Series, a monthly gathering at the Lawndale Art Center, and its annual Spring Issue Release Party. These events continue bringing esteemed writers, editors, publishers, and readers to Houston. Each Spring, Gulf Coast students attend the AWP Conference & Bookfair, which seeks to expand the subscription base and exposure of Gulf Coast Literary Journal.
$28,472 spent$6,500 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,896.
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 2024 to 2025, from $284k to $362k (+28%).
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 3% · 2018 11% · 2019 10% · 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. 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 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 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $57k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $233k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Arts Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts raised.
From the IRS filings of Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts’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
Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 70% — 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
60% of Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
94% of Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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.
Government funding Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$78k
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 Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
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
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts?
- Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,075 to it, the largest being The Brown Foundation Inc ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $230,075 in grants to Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts?
- The Brown Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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