Washington · Nonprofit
SHORT RUN SEATTLE
SHORT RUN SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,087 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,931). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Short Run Seattle does
Mission
Short Run focuses on the medium of comics as a coalescence of art and literature. We believe in the intimate experience of holding a book in your hands. Thats why we highlight artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world who make alternative comix and self-published, small press, and handmade books of all kinds. We want to ensure that Seattle is considered a destination for small press artists, and a percolator of comics genius.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Trailer Blaze Comics Residency brings 12-14 women and non-binary comic artists to the Long Beach Peninsula for commited work time and personal growth.
$4,540 spentof which $3,000 as grants7% of program spendingShort Run Comix Festival, our largest program, is an annual, free to the public marketplace and community gathering with 250 book artists from around the world. This event attracts over 4,000 in 1 weekend in November.
$62,033 spentof which $17,875 as grants89% of program spendingShort Run Micropress is out in-house publishing arm, working with our studiomate Paper Press Punch, we print comic anthologies that we sell and give to contributors.
$520 spent1% of program spendingSHOW UP artist talks are held on Saturday afternoons and gather small groups of local artists to learn more about each others' practices, and help to combat artist isolation.
$635 spent1% of program spendingShort Run Comic Apprentice Program is a mentoring and learning experience for 5 students (ages 15-19), with financial support from Foundry10. Students are paid for their in-class time and present their first comicbooks at the festival.
$1,620 spentof which $1,400 as grants2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,348.
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 2021 to 2022, from $32k to $65k (+101%).
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.
85% of SHORT RUN SEATTLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kelly Froh
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10 → $19k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SHORT RUN SEATTLE’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
SHORT RUN SEATTLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 SHORT RUN SEATTLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — 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
SHORT RUN SEATTLE draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56 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
SHORT RUN SEATTLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SHORT RUN SEATTLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
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 SHORT RUN SEATTLE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHORT RUN SEATTLE: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SHORT RUN SEATTLE?
- SHORT RUN SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,087 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,931). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHORT RUN SEATTLE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $76,087 in grants to SHORT RUN SEATTLE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHORT RUN SEATTLE?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHORT RUN SEATTLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Short Run Seattle →
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 5 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