Texas · Nonprofit
INPRINT INC
INPRINT INC (Texas) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,731,258 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($630,350). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Inprint Inc does
Mission
The mission of inprint is to inspire readers and writers in houston through literary and educational activities which strive to make reading and writing a vital aspect of community life in houston.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Inprint's literary performance programs include the inprint margarett root brown reading series (ibrs); inprint cool brains! Series; inprint escritores en la casa series; ink well: a podcast; and related community programs - all at little or no cost to the public. Events include author readings, interviews, conversations, and book signings. Ibrs has featured more than 400 writers from 39 countries, including winners of 13 nobel prizes, 73 pulitzer prizes, 67 national book awards, 19 booker prizes, and 23 u.s. Poets laureate. Cool brains! Has presented close to 50 renowned middle-grade authors, including winners of the newbery medal, national book award, and caldecott medal. Escritores en la casa, a spanish-language reading series, has showcased 22 acclaimed authors from the u.s., latin america, and spain. Ink well has featured interviews close to 30 episodes with leading latinx and latin american writers. A total audience of 9,639 was directly served by these programs in 2024-2025.
$564,373 spent$97,061 earned by the program49% of program spendingInprint's literary engagement programs include writing workshops, poetry buskers, book club, and other community programs. Writing workshops provide the general public, senior citizens, adults with dementia, k-12 educators, healthcare employees, veterans, the incarcerated, and others with instruction in creative writing that enables them, depending on the group served, to strengthen their writing skills, prepare work for publication, create memoirs to be shared with families and friends, engage in personally rewarding activities, and improve cognitive abilities. Inprint poetry buskers bring the joy of poetry to festivals and public events throughout the greater houston area. The inprint book club offers lively discussions on works by authors featured in ibrs. Total audience of 3,927 was directly served by these programs in 2024-2025.
$309,778 spent$123,532 earned by the program27% of program spendingSince 1983, inprint has supported the next generation of literary writers by providing fellowships, juried prizes, and paid writing-related employment to more than 600 graduate students and local authors, totaling more than $4.5 million in direct support of writers. Inprint's support of graduate students at the university of houston (uh) creative writing program and undergraduates at rice university, along with outreach programs at other local universities and schools, enhances houston and helps to ensure - locally and nationally - the future of the written word. A total of 178 emerging authors received direct support via these programs in 2024-2025.
$289,462 spentof which $267,713 as grants25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,163,613.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.0M to $7.6M (+26%).
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 2% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 6% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. 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.
Chief executive
Richard A Levy
Executive director
Board chair
Mary S Dawson
Chair, board of director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $73k → $395k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $628k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Arts Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money INPRINT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INPRINT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
INPRINT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 INPRINT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 58% · 2019 33% · 2020 62% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 2023 25% — 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
35% of INPRINT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
97% of INPRINT INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $792k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 INPRINT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$155k
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 INPRINT 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 INPRINT 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INPRINT INC?
- INPRINT INC (Texas) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,731,258 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($630,350). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INPRINT INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,731,258 in grants to INPRINT INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INPRINT INC?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $630,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INPRINT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing