California · Nonprofit
INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC
INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,013 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($145,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $264k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Inlandia Institute Inc does
Mission
The mission of the inlandia institute is to recognize, support and expand literary activity in all of its forms in the inland empire by publishing books and sponsoring programs that deepen people's awareness, understanding and appreciation of this unique, complex and creatively vibrant region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Three of inlandia's core programs are youth creative literacy and adult creative literacy and literary professional development programs as well as the literary laureate, currently focused on teens. These programs support writers of all levels and ages. This is accomplished through creative writing workshops that range from free to minimal cost. Highlights this year include inlandia's journaling journey from a to zine was a six-week summer camp focused on creativity and nature for primary grades at the ssgt. Salvador j. Lara library, led by young adult leaders from a variety of backgrounds who led the children through a weekly program that combined nature with creative literacy. The weekend writing program for teens at the riverside public library, so you want to be a writer? Brought in diverse guest writers from many genres including journalism to manga to poetry to publishing, so that aspiring young writers could get first-hand professional level experience from writers who look like them. Our teen poet laureate project, in partnership with the riverside county office of education, the city of riverside, and the riverside county library system, spotlights dozens of teen poets…
$3,550 spent$12,345 earned by the program3% of program spendingAnother of inlandia's core programs is our publications program which amplifies the voices of those who call this region home as well as under-heard and marginalized voices everywhere. In the fy 2024-25, inlandia books launched multiple new publications. In total, we released 8 brand new publications, several of which have been republished as ebooks for accessibility. As usual, we published our yearly anthology of readers from all over the inland empire. We also published our literary award winners for our eliud martinez prize and hillary gravendyk prize: search party, pain survey, and law of the letter. In addition, we published a book of all riverside, ca based women over 50 years of age called riverside women creating change. We had a few other titles including razed and keep sweet, both fiction titles, the former dealing with lgbtq love during a tumultuous time in us history, and finally memoir apartness.
$116,140 spent$61,545 earned by the program82% of program spendingOur fifth and final core program, free public literary and cultural events, encompasses everything else that inlandia does. We partner with other cultural institutions to develop our overlapping audiences. Notable recent public literary and cultural events have been collaborations between several local museums and cultural arts institutions, including the center for social justice and civil liberties, the civil rights institute of inland southern california, and the museum of riverside, presenting programs like the power of the letter, which examined the incarceration of our region's japanese american citizens during wwii, and the banned books tour which showcased favorite banned books. We also began a new series of author conversations at the sam and alfreda maloof museum and gardens. Total number of individuals served from all programs for the year ended june 30, 2025 were 15k+ people, about 6.25% of which were children and youth. We delivered 152 workshop sessions, 27 cultural events, and 31 children and youth creative literacy programs
$21,541 spent$11,230 earned by the program15% of program spendingInlandia institute's programs have moved back to an in-person format, but with the added benefit of livestreaming thanks to cares-act funding which allowed for the purchase of and training with new technologies.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $141,231.
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 2020 to 2021, from $147k to $238k (+62%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 29% · 2023 52% · 2024 36% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Chief executive
Cati Porter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $26k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 INLANDIA INSTITUTE 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
INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 64% · 2020 55% · 2021 46% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
38% of INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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
INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $89k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$89k
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 INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC?
- INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,013 to it, the largest being E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation ($145,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $264,013 in grants to INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC?
- E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $145,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INLANDIA INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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