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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.
Against its field
SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inclocalportfolio match
- Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Incshared funders
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio match
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.
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inclocalportfolio matchNY · funds 265 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Academy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tamaasusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS: 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 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.
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 8funders 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