New York · Nonprofit
LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE
LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,740 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Literary Agents of Change does
Mission
Literary Agents of Change, the nonprofit born out of the association of american literary agents' (aala) diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, was formed to help dismantle the barriers to entry into a career as a literary agent for members of historically underrepresented groups, particularly people of color, while recognizing the systems of overlapping oppressions in regard to race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, class, and ability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our summer fellowship program thoughtfully matches college students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented groups with a literary agency and aala member, and Literary Agents of Change provides a grant directly to the student for their participation. Over ten weeks, from june through august, these fellows learn the inner workings of the industry and receive direct support from a supervisor to understand the role a literary agent plays in the publishing process and develop the skills that will help them succeed. Literary Agents of Change hosts a slate of programming over the course of the summer to further fellows' access to networking, mentorship, and educational panels that will cover the publishing industry as a whole. There were six fellows in 2025.
$46,742 spent61% of program spendingThe mentorship program seeks to increase retention and promotion of people in the business from historically underrepresented groups, particularly people of color. The program provides a rich opportunity for both established agents and newer agents to learn from each other and co-create the future of the business. Mentors draw on years of experience to offer their expertise, insight, and inspiration to up-and-coming agents, who, in turn, offer fresh concepts, approaches, and perspective on the present challenges facing aspiring and new agents and ideas for change in the business. This year-long program matches mentees who are currently employed at a literary agency with two agent mentors, each of whom provide at least one hour each month of mentoring. Participants are matched based on shared interests and to provide mentees with exposure to other agency cultures. Programming and networking opportunities are offered to both mentee and mentor participants. Our 2025 cycle had twenty-four mentors and twelve mentees. Aala members are also encouraged to volunteer to become mentors to young agents from historically underrepresented groups.
$30,019 spent39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,761.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $47k to $72k (+52%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE’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
LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 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
62% of LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Organizations like LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE
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.
Public support
96%
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 LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE: 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 LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE?
- LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,740 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,740 in grants to LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERARY AGENTS OF CHANGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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