New York · Nonprofit
HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION
HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,087 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($238,850). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $689k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $436k
What House of Speakeasy Foundation does
Mission
The organization is dedicated to supporting and promoting the art of writing through providing entertaining and innovative ways for writers of all forms and genres to reach their audiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Seriously entertaining: house of speakeasy presented seven seriously entertaining literary cabaret shows featuring 40 writers and reaching over 1,600 guests. Speaktogether: coordinated 4 in-school author events, one four-week in- school storytelling workshop series, three one-week writing workshops and one five-week college essay writing workshop. In total these programs provided almost 2,000 instructional hours to 566 students and distributed more than 1,000 books. Speakfreely: throughout the year, speakeasy made it possible for high school teachers to receive complimentary access to seriously entertaining programming. Speakeasy bookmobile: the bookmobile traveled across new york city distributing free books for a total of 38 activations between april and december 2023 in neighborhoods such as bed-stuy and harlem. In total we distributed more than 10,000 books to children, adults and seniors and reached more than 6,500 nyc residents.
$347,961 spent$42,157 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $347,961.
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 2019 to 2020, from $127k to $305k (+139%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 18% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
117% of HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Amanda Foreman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $60k → $250k.
13 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
47% 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 HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 30% · 2019 31% · 2020 41% · 2021 34% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% — 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
42% of HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
89% of HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $685k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,872 membership benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,872 membership benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION: 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 HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION?
- HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,087 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($238,850). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $1,496,087 in grants to HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $238,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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