Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD
MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $58 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($58). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $58
- Net assets
- $48k
What Marthas Vineyard Science Fiction Association Ltd does
Mission
This corporation is organized for educational, cultural, and literary purposes, including the origination, sponsoring, and holding of meetings, workshops, film showings, art shows, conventions, and other events concerning fantasy and science fiction, to bring together those who are involved in fantasy and science fiction at all levels, whether in appreciation or through their profession, for their mutual education, and to carry on any business in the furtherance of the foregoing and not inconsistent with the constraints applied by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization has run 29 workshops, beginning in 1997. With about 24 students per year, we have served over 600 writers in that time. Our students have gone on to win major awards in the genre, including Hugo and Nebula Awards, and gone on to successful literary careers.
$56,654 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,654.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $44k to $48k (+9%).
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.
1% of MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15 → $24.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD’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
100% of MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58 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
MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD
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 Massachusetts
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD: 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 MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD?
- MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $58 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($58). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $58 in grants to MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $58 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTHAS VINEYARD SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2024–2025), 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