New Hampshire · Nonprofit
ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST
ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST (New Hampshire) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,366 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($51,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $265k
What Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust does
Mission
To provide education, feedback, educational resources, and instructional support to writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror to help them improve their work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Your personal odyssey writing workshop: our november 2024 session (18 weeks) was completed on april 4, 2025, and then two more sessions were held, august 11-october 31, 2025 (12 weeks), and november 24, 2025-april 3, 2026 (18 weeks). To make our workshop more accessible and more effective, we made some key changes to its format in 2022, and it's been exciting to see how the unique structure, contents, and methods of the program are helping students delve more deeply into their writing and make greater improvements. Your personal odyssey writing workshop is a breakthrough, one-on-one online program for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Writers can decide how long they want to complete the program, which topics they want to study, in what order and in what depth, and they can design some of their own assignments. The new format allows writers unable to attend a six-week, in-person workshop due to family, work, finances, or other difficulties to have an intense educational experience and make major improvements in their writing. In addition, the program makes it possible to satisfy the unique needs and goals of each writer, rather than forcing them into a…
$84,828 spentof which $13,500 as grants66% of program spendingThe never-ending odyssey writing workshop (tneo): held july 18-26, 2025. Tneo provides advanced, graduate-level instruction to writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror who have successfully completed the odyssey writing workshop or your personal odyssey. Over 8 days, tneo combines lectures; workshopping of participants' manuscripts; writing exercises; plotting, brainstorming & problem-solving sessions; read-alouds; writing sessions; and literary discussions. Participants help to run the workshop, creating an energizing, collaborative environment. Tneo was held in a fully hybrid format in 2025, allowing participants to choose whether to attend in person, on the campus of saint anselm college in manchester, nh; or online. This provided flexibility to allow writers with a wide range of life circumstances to participate. Fifteen writers from the us and new zealand participated. They volunteered to run the various sessions, offered in-depth critiques, and helped each other improve. They learned about the strengths and weaknesses in their own writing and worked to improve. Many of the stories and novels critiqued at tneo go on to be professionally published. Activities generally…
$18,738 spent15% of program spendingOdyssey online courses: getting the big picture: the key to revising your novel (held online 1/7/25-2/18/25, tuition collected in 2024); mix-up, mash-up, hybrid, fusion: how to write a blended-genre story (held online 1/9/25-2/6/25, tuition collected in 2024); and bodies and heartbeats: crafting character from the inside out (held online 1/14/25-2/11/25, tuition collected in 2024). Odyssey holds three online courses each winter. Each online course provides intense instruction focused on a single aspect of fiction writing for 14 authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The courses provide a live class experience on zoom, and guidance, discussion, and feedback in between classes through emails, an online learning management system, and individual online conferences. Courses are offered for a variety of skill levels, from beginners to successful professionals. Lectures are thorough and detailed, assignments are challenging, and feedback is in-depth. The courses were taught by award-winning author barbara ashford and bestselling authors e. C. Ambrose and gregory ashe. Through these three courses, odyssey gave a total of 42 writers from the us, canada, mexico, germany, and…
$12,186 spent9% of program spendingOdyssey critique service: offered year-round by mail and email. The odyssey critique service provides authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror with educational feedback on their writing. Authors can submit manuscripts ranging in length from 20,000-150,000 words and receive in- depth, instructional, professional-level critiques. Critiques are provided by 4 odyssey writing workshop graduates who have become successful, professional writers. One is an award-winning author and another is a new york times bestseller. Critiques average over 8,300 words (16 single- spaced pages) and also include significant line edits and marginal notes on the manuscript. In 2025, 10 manuscripts were critiqued. Authors were extremely satisfied with the feedback they received and found it very helpful. One author said, "outstanding the critique I received from lane robins was deep, thorough, and felt like she was somehow able to see my face through my manuscript. Over thousands of words, she traced every plot thread, noticed ideas that I had intentionally taken out, and advocated for their reintroduction without having ever seen my worldbuilding notes. She broke down my writing into my strengths…
$13,348 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $129,100.
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 2017 to 2018, from $99k to $158k (+59%).
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.
47% of ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST’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
ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $77k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST
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 Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST: 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 ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST?
- ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST (New Hampshire) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,366 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($51,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $77,366 in grants to ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $51,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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