Ohio · Nonprofit
Literary Club of Cincinnati
Literary Club of Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,513 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($7,013). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Literary Club of Cincinnati does
Mission
The Literary Club is a charitable and educational organization whose mission is to promote the literary arts, by encouraging members to write and present original literary, educational, scientific and other works to members, guests, and the public, and to serve as a center for the presentation of literary works and host educational events about writing and literary arts to members and the public on a charitable basis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Members meet on Monday nights in the Clubs historic building in downtown Cincinnati, OH. The building houses all papers written since 1885. Each member must regularly write and present a paper at the meetings. Members include many professions such as teachers, doctors, and lawyers. Past members have included presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William Howard Taft. The Literary Club hosted public events of noted authors and educators about writing and of several poets laureate of their poetry and this literary art form. The Literary Club annually publishes a book of original pieces chosen from a competition around the theme.
$140,649 spent$79,484 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $140,649.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $1.9M (+39%).
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.
27% of Literary Club of Cincinnati’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Club of Cincinnati’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 Club of Cincinnati leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
74% 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 Club of Cincinnati.
“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
74% of Literary Club of Cincinnati'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
Literary Club of Cincinnati runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Literary Club of Cincinnati
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 Club of Cincinnati: 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 Club of Cincinnati?
- Literary Club of Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,513 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($7,013). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Literary Club of Cincinnati have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $9,513 in grants to Literary Club of Cincinnati.
- Who is the largest funder of Literary Club of Cincinnati?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,013 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Literary Club of Cincinnati find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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