New York · Nonprofit
THE AUTHORS GUILD INC
THE AUTHORS GUILD INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,835 to it, the largest being ROARING BROOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What The Authors Guild Inc does
Mission
The authors guild is the nation's oldest and largest professional organization to serve and protect the interests of writers in their profession. The guild advocates for authors on issues of copyright, fair contracts, free speech, fair compensation, and tax fairness and has initiated and particiapted in lawsuits in defense of speech, copyright protection, and other issues of concerns to authors. It provides authors with information and tools to empower them in the business of writing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy: the guild works on behalf of its members to litigate and lobby for free speech, copyright protection, and other issues of concern to authors. It brought authors the latest news relevant to their writing life through its bulletin, email newsletter and website. The guild also provides tutorials and seminars online and via conference calls on the business of being an author.
$3,361,577 spent77% of program spendingWeb services: the guild built and hosted websites for its members, and reserved domain names, submitted websites to search engines and provides private email addresses.
$525,596 spent$365,049 earned by the program12% of program spendingContract review: the guild's legal staff provided reviews of agency and publishing contracts, suggested negotiation strategies and intervened in publishing disputes on behalf of members.
$452,971 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,340,144.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.1M (+26%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Mary Rasenberger
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.
From the IRS filings of THE AUTHORS GUILD 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
THE AUTHORS GUILD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 63% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of THE AUTHORS GUILD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
THE AUTHORS GUILD INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like THE AUTHORS GUILD INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Authors Guild Foundation · exempt
- The Authors Registry · corp_trust
- The Authors League of America · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AUTHORS GUILD 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 THE AUTHORS GUILD INC?
- THE AUTHORS GUILD INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,835 to it, the largest being ROARING BROOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AUTHORS GUILD INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $35,835 in grants to THE AUTHORS GUILD INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AUTHORS GUILD INC?
- ROARING BROOK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AUTHORS GUILD 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 15 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