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NY WRITERS COALITION INC

NY WRITERS COALITION INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,032,097 to it, the largest being THE MERINGOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($185,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$314k
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$342k
18/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Ny Writers Coalition Inc does

Mission

To provide free and low cost creative writing workshops throughout new york city for people from groups that have historically been deprived of a voice in society.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated 600 workshop sessions with 750 unique participants throughout new york city. This includes workshops for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, young people aged 6-18, people with disabilities and major illnesses, seniors, lgbtq people, women and girls, the general public, and others. Published chapbooks and held readings to promote the voices and stories from people from traditionally under-represented backgrounds.

    $365,300 spent$3,986 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $365,300.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($520k) Expenses 100 ($421k) Net assets 100 ($278k)2018 Revenue 52 ($272k) Expenses 79 ($332k) Net assets 79 ($219k)2019 Revenue 64 ($335k) Expenses 80 ($335k) Net assets 78 ($218k)2020 Revenue 108 ($560k) Expenses 96 ($403k) Net assets 135 ($375k)2021 Revenue 89 ($464k) Expenses 104 ($437k) Net assets 145 ($403k)2022 Revenue 60 ($314k) Expenses 105 ($442k) Net assets 123 ($342k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (60)Expenses (105)Net assets (123)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 2019 to 2020, from $238k to $383k (+61%).

$300k
$219k
$238k
$383k
$403k
$346k
201720182019202020212022
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 35% · 2019 32% · 2020 31% · 2021 48% · 2022 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of NY WRITERS COALITION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$99k
’17
−$60k
’18
$391
’19
$157k
’20
$28k
’21
−$128k
’22
3.3
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.

Chief executive

Aaron Zimmerman

Executive director

Board chair

Brooke Mackenzie

Chair

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

201720182019202020212022
Listed121312121111
Joined·+3+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·22110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $52k → $98k.

9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 NY WRITERS COALITION INC’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

NY WRITERS COALITION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

29% 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 NY WRITERS COALITION INC.

18%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 72% · 2019 44% · 2020 43% · 2021 24% · 2022 44% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

25% of NY WRITERS COALITION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

66% of NY WRITERS COALITION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NY
OH
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NY WRITERS COALITION INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−41% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,683 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

Government funding NY WRITERS COALITION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $136k on record.

Federal$136k
grants $136kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$136k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 14%Fundraising 4%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds NY WRITERS COALITION INC?
NY WRITERS COALITION INC (New York) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,032,097 to it, the largest being THE MERINGOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($185,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NY WRITERS COALITION INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,032,097 in grants to NY WRITERS COALITION INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NY WRITERS COALITION INC?
THE MERINGOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NY WRITERS COALITION INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 27 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