New York · Nonprofit
PEN PARENTIS LTD
PEN PARENTIS LTD (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,111 to it, the largest being The Poetry Foundation ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PEN PARENTIS LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio match
- National Book Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
95% of PEN PARENTIS LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $28k.
1 of 5 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 PEN PARENTIS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PEN PARENTIS LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
PEN PARENTIS LTD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Academy of American Poets Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Book Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tamaasusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthornden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Picard Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Fairer Capitalismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mamafilm Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Queequeeg Foundation Trust Ralph H Reese Et Al Trusteesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John R Halligan Charitable Fundshared fundersIL · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding PEN PARENTIS LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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.
Organizations like PEN PARENTIS LTD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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 PEN PARENTIS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PEN PARENTIS LTD?
- PEN PARENTIS LTD (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,111 to it, the largest being The Poetry Foundation ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEN PARENTIS LTD have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $35,111 in grants to PEN PARENTIS LTD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEN PARENTIS LTD?
- The Poetry Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEN PARENTIS LTD 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing