Wyoming · Nonprofit
JACKSON HOLE WRITERS
JACKSON HOLE WRITERS (Wyoming) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,605 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($229,007). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $254k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Jackson Hole Writers does
Mission
The organization is a community of writers which builds connections and creates educational experiences for established and aspiring writers across genres.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
For the thirty-sixth year, Jackson Hole Writers hosted an annual three-day conference that brought together authors, editors, agents, and aspiring writers from across the united states. The conference consisted of educational programming, craft classes, manuscript critiques, and professional networking opportunities. It served more than 100 writers and helped launch the professional careers of attendees and/or reinvigorated their writing goals. Public events connected faculty and conference attendees with the greater community in jackson hole.
$100,645 spent71% of program spendingJackson Hole Writers substantially expanded its program offerings to include writing craft classes (both in-person and online) every month of the year, multi-session writing programs for older adults, monthly peer critique groups, and celebration programs to support people who wanted to start a writing practice and to jumpstart the writing practices of experienced writers.
$25,895 spent18% of program spendingJackson Hole Writers expanded its programming for young writers through the coordination of the county level of a statewide creative writing contest open to all children grades k-12. Hundreds of students contributed writing to this contest and many benefitted from afterschool programs with local writers organized by Jackson Hole Writers. Summer programs for students included day-long workshops that that paired young writers with published children's book authors and working writers.
$15,193 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,733.
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 2022 to 2023, from $65k to $23k (−65%).
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.
82% of JACKSON HOLE WRITERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 JACKSON HOLE WRITERS’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
JACKSON HOLE WRITERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 JACKSON HOLE WRITERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
90% of JACKSON HOLE WRITERS'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Wyoming funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
JACKSON HOLE WRITERS's revenue grew 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like JACKSON HOLE WRITERS
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 Wyoming
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE WRITERS?
- JACKSON HOLE WRITERS (Wyoming) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,605 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($229,007). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JACKSON HOLE WRITERS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $253,605 in grants to JACKSON HOLE WRITERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JACKSON HOLE WRITERS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE is the largest funder on record, with $229,007 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JACKSON HOLE WRITERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. 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 4 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