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LITCAMP

LITCAMP (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being The Miner Anderson Family Foundation ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$237k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$53k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Litcamp does

Mission

Litcamp helps writers hone their craft, navigate the world of publishing, and find community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 1. Sponsored two co-working spaces exclusively for writers. Locations are in san francisco and berkeley; members are accepted year-round. 2. Hosted seven lit night events during the year: give emerging writers the opportunity to read their work in front of an audience. 3. Co-produced three how they did it craft panels in conjunction with litquake.4. Hosted and ran a litquake event showcasing the work of new and aspiring writers.5. Created and ran a lit crawl event designed to give more writers the opportunity to read their work in public.6. Curated a session on finding your literary community for the bay area book festival.7. Curated and ran twelve online classes on publishing and craft. The classes are taught by published writers and experienced instructors to help writers develop their craft. 8. Retreats held to give writers the time and space needed to focus on their projects.

    $240,135 spent$324,711 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $240,135.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($204k) Expenses 100 ($223k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2024 Revenue 144 ($293k) Expenses 117 ($260k) Net assets 157 ($91k)2025 Revenue 116 ($237k) Expenses 124 ($275k) Net assets 92 ($53k)
202320242025
Revenue (116)Expenses (124)Net assets (92)Peer revenue range

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 $101k to $54k (−47%).

$58k
$101k
$54k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LITCAMP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’23
$33k
’24
−$38k
’25
1.0
months of
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.

202320242025
Listed444
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of LITCAMP’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.

Where its funders are

LITCAMP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LITCAMP has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LITCAMP

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITCAMP: 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 LITCAMP?
LITCAMP (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being The Miner Anderson Family Foundation ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITCAMP have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,000 in grants to LITCAMP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITCAMP?
The Miner Anderson Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITCAMP 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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