Massachusetts · Nonprofit
STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED
STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,700 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($55,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $79k
What Straw Dog Writers Guild Incorporated does
Mission
Support writers
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Promote community and provide education and support for the literary community through various activities for over 1400 people and 50 authors.
$37,664 spentof which $15,140 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,664.
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 2019 to 2020, from $20k to $40k (+103%).
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.
15% of STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $22k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED’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
STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 81% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k 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.
Against its field
STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$7k
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 STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED?
- STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,700 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($55,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $79,700 in grants to STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRAW DOG WRITERS GUILD INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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