New York · Nonprofit
TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC
TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,222,221 to it, the largest being THE CERIMON FUND NMA ($402,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $694k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Teachers & Writers Collaborative Inc does
Mission
The organization seeks to educate the imagination by offering innovative creative writing programs for students and teachers, and by providing a variety of publications and resources to support learning through the literary arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workshops - the organization arranges for teaching artists to visit schools and other community settings to conduct innovative writing and art workshops.
$384,834 spentof which $5,650 as grants$78,232 earned by the program66% of program spendingCommunications - the organization publishes books and an online magazine about the teaching of creative writing.
$72,958 spentof which $9,000 as grants$4,525 earned by the program13% of program spendingSpecial projects - includes poetry out loud, a national recitation contest that the organization manages statewide under a contract from new york state council on the arts.
$121,720 spentof which $10,217 as grants21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $579,512.
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 2022 to 2023, from $577k to $1.4M (+151%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 19% · 2019 33% · 2020 41% · 2021 36% · 2022 31% · 2023 12% · 2024 33% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC’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. 6 of the last 9 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
Asari Beale
Executive director
Board chair
Fatima Malik
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $127k → $205k.
5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC’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
TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 45% · 2019 72% · 2020 25% · 2021 62% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — 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
30% of TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k 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
TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC is better cushioned than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: 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 TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,222,221 to it, the largest being THE CERIMON FUND NMA ($402,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,222,221 in grants to TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC?
- THE CERIMON FUND NMA is the largest funder on record, with $402,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing