California · Nonprofit
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,770 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($180,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $487k
- Net assets
- $223k
What Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center does
Mission
Literary arts, multidisciplinary programming, and educational opportunities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
9/19/2025Samplings of Jack Spicer Materials from The Bancroft Library17 registered9/19/2025Book Launch for Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer edited by Daniel Benjamin, Kelly Holt, and Kevin Killian59 attendedExhibition Opening, Fran Herndon: Up to the Aether78 Registered9/20/2025Two Panels on Fran Herndon40 registered9/21/2025Poetry as Magic Workshop20 attendedSept-October 2025Jack Spicer & Fran Herndon Pop Up Exhibit at San Francisco Public LibraryEstimated 350 viewed10/26/2025An Affair for Jack the Modernist87 attended11/30/2025Global Reading in Solidary with PalestineOnline views to date: 3,05612/6/2025A Reading with Christine Imperial & Lara Mimosa Montes30 registered1/25/2026A Memorial for Margaret Tedesco250 registered1/31/2026Friends of Perfection at The Lab150 tickets2/1/2026Friends of Perfection at BAMPFA100 tickets2/28/2026Collective Reading of Dictee125 registeredMarch-April 2026Writing the Unreadable Workshop12 registered4/8/2026A Reading with Tyehimba Jess & Tongo Eisen-Martin65 registered4/25/2026Reading with Terrance Arjoon, Sophia Dahlin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson70 registered5/17/2026Film Screening of Golden Gate: An Oral History…
$102,682 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,682.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2025 to 2026, from $124k to $223k (+80%).
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: 2024 18% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center’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. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $244k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 33% · 2023 61% — 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
50% of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 64% 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
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 335 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
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 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center: 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 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center?
- Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,770 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($180,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $486,770 in grants to Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 11 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