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SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS

SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $736,691 to it, the largest being THE ATLANTIC FOUNDATION ($541,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$183k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$737k
Net assets
$17k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 87%
01What it does

What Screenwriters Colony Inc Dba Almanack Screenwriters does

Mission

To provide meaningful support for screenwriters fully sponsored residency and mentorship programming, and to advance the art of screenwriting for freature films, eposodic television, and other emerging mediums.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Almanack screenwriters discovers and nurtures talented emerging storytellers in film and television. We provide these artists with fully sponsored programs that offer dedicated time, space, and professional mentorship so they can create stories that shape our world.

    $159,967 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $159,967.

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 ($165k) Expenses 100 ($143k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2018 Revenue 97 ($160k) Expenses 126 ($180k) Net assets 25 ($7k)2019 Revenue 132 ($217k) Expenses 155 ($222k) Net assets 9 ($2k)2020 Revenue 114 ($188k) Expenses 94 ($135k) Net assets 205 ($55k)2021 Revenue 141 ($233k) Expenses 143 ($205k) Net assets 311 ($83k)2022 Revenue 113 ($187k) Expenses 142 ($204k) Net assets 249 ($67k)2023 Revenue 95 ($157k) Expenses 131 ($188k) Net assets 134 ($36k)2024 Revenue 111 ($183k) Expenses 141 ($202k) Net assets 64 ($17k)
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Revenue (111)Expenses (141)Net assets (64)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 $6k to $68k (+969%).

$30k
$8k
$6k
$68k
$92k
$69k
$38k
$19k
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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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS’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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
−$20k
’18
−$4k
’19
$52k
’20
$29k
’21
−$17k
’22
−$31k
’23
−$19k
’24
5.2
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.

Board chair

Jeffrey Soros

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

201720192021
Listed989
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $33k → $137k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS’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

SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

73%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2019 71% · 2020 79% · 2021 82% · 2022 82% · 2023 82% — 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.

How long its funders stay

38% of SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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

SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.

NY
NJ
KY
VA

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

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’20
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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

34%

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 SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS?
SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $736,691 to it, the largest being THE ATLANTIC FOUNDATION ($541,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $736,691 in grants to SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS?
THE ATLANTIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $541,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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