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LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS
LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,105 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($14,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $194k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Literary Women the Long Beach Festival of Authors does
Mission
One day event to promote reading for pleasure and knowledge.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
One day event to promote reading for pleasure and knowledge. 815 persons attended and 7 authors spoke.
$165,838 spent98% of program spendingGrant provided to the Friends of the Long Beach Public Library for the purchase of library books
$3,889 spentof which $3,889 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $169,727.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $104k to $133k (+28%).
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. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Monica Leff
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $27 → $7k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS’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 WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105 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 WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS: 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 WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS?
- LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,105 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($14,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,105 in grants to LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS?
- PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERARY WOMEN THE LONG BEACH FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), 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