Tennessee · Nonprofit
ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC
ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $173 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($173). 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
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $173
- Net assets
- $134k
What Rockvale Writers' Colony Inc does
Mission
Rockvale writers' colony exists to support, promote, and educate writers of all backgrounds who write in any genre. We aim to provide a safe, comfortable, and inspiring environment where writers can settle in as "writers in residence" to work on a writing project.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Rockvale writer's colony (rwc) provides aspiring writers with a distraction-free environment that is necessary for creating intense, focused works. Writers who need a quiet place to work on an upcoming project can stay on the premises (the "colony") as a way to improve an existing work, complete an existing project , or simply to improve overall writing skills. Writers generally stay at the colony between 1-4 weeks, depending on the size of the project and/or the needs of the writer. In addition to offering a peaceful work environment, rwc conducts workshops and genre-specific retreats throughout the year that allow aspiring writers to learn ways to improve their craft. Rwc also has a mentorship program where the writers attending rwc's events can receive focused feedback on the projects they are currently working on. As more funds are raised, rwc intends to continue finding ways to support more and more writers in furthering and improving their craft.
$30,339 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,339.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $73k to $122k (+67%).
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.
0% of ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC’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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $33.
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 ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC'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. $173 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
ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
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In Tennessee
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC?
- ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $173 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($173). 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 ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $173 in grants to ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKVALE WRITERS' COLONY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2019–2025), 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