Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC
SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,664,469 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($358,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $665k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $699k
What Shoutmousepressinc does
Mission
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As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In our publishing program, we aim to diversify the next generations bookshelves. We publish youth-authored, diverse, and inclusive childrens and young adult books. We also provide platforms for emerging artists from marginalized backgrounds by connecting them to industry mentors and hiring them to illustrate their first childrens book. We actively promote and sell these books in both traditional and educational marketplaces, because we believe that peer voices are powerful voices, and they can engage audiences in ways that adult authors cannot. Finally, we ensure that earned income from book sales is invested directly back into young people themselves. Proceeds support scholarship funds for author communities, salaries for author interns, and programs that help young people speak up, be heard, and be taken seriously as leaders in their communities.
$296,886 spent$79,786 earned by the program63% of program spendingWriting workshops serve as the first step for shout mouse press authors. All book projects commencing begin with a non-profit program partner, who recruits young writers from their community. Our non-profit program partners are carefully chosen and serve communities whose identities are underrepresented as characters and creators within young peoples literature. All workshops and one-on-one writing mentorships are run by professional teaching artists, many of whom share identities and lived experiences withour authors. During workshops, youth are coached to write mission-driven books in a variety of genres. We pass the pen to those who can best represent themselves and their communities with authenticity, knowledge, and understanding.
$91,500 spent19% of program spendingOur author talks program is one of two post-publication leadership opportunities for all shout mouse authors. Our authors are routinely invited to serve as guest speakers in school, university, community, and literary spaces as a way to address community issues on which they are truly experts but are rarely consulted. We provide training for these public speaking engagements, as well as transportation and honoraria for all authors.
$45,727 spent10% of program spendingProgram service expenses 38,826, grants and allocations 0, revenue 1,525 our author pathways program is our newest post publication leadership development track for shout mouse authors. Pathways encompass a variety of career and college access supports, including author internships, college and scholarship essay support, and direct contributions to scholarship funds for author communities.
$38,826 spent$1,525 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $472,939.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $549k to $930k (+69%).
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: 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Kathy Crutcher
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $61k → $225k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 45% · 2019 37% · 2020 31% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
54% of SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $808k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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 SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC: 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 SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC?
- SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,664,469 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($358,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,664,469 in grants to SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $358,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 34 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