Washington · Nonprofit
THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY
THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,092 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($129,970). 2 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
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $185k
What The Carl Brandon Society does
Mission
Literary and educational
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarships awarded to talented, emerging writers of color to allow them to attend Clarion or Clarion West Writers Workshops at UC San Diego and Seattle, advancing their education in the craft and business of writing, and facilitating making professional contacts.
$0 spentof which $14,400 as grants0% of program spendingOnline weekend workshop, Intro to the Inactive Protagonist, taught by Vida Cruz-Borja, June 14-15, 2025. Students learned to widen the definition of character agency in fiction other than active and inactive protagonist; discovered other ways "inactive protagonists" can express their agency; and explored perspectives and approaches other than conflict and competition in fiction. Class size limit: 10. Student attendance: 5 live, 7 via video afterward
$3,860 spent22% of program spendingOnline weekend workshop, Cultural Storytelling: Tapping into Speculative Fiction's Revolutionary Potential, taught by Naseem Jamnia, July 19-20, 2025. Students examined how their "non-normative" experiences affect theirr understanding of "good craft" to shape stories that not only include characters who look like them, but themes, plot and emotional beats, characterization, and overall structures that better reflect the cultural traditions they come from. Student attendance: Class size limit: 10. Student attendance: 7 live, 2 via video afterward
$3,660 spent21% of program spendingOnline weekend workshop, How To Finish Your Novel, taught by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, November 29-30. Suyi combined principles from strategic project culture (honed during his time in a former corporate role) and the tips, tricks and techniques he has built up in his author career to deliver a pathway to starting and finishing your novel. Class size limit: 14. Student attendance: 14 live, 7 via video afterward. This was our first class to be offered as a scholarship-only class.
$3,360 spent19% of program spendingGave the 2020 Parallax Award to The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson for the long form category and "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter" by Elaine Cuyegkeng for the short form category. Gave the 2020 Kindred Award to Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland for the long form category and "Exile's End" by Carolyn Ives Gilman for the short form category. All the winners accepted their awards, but Justina Ireland turned down the $1000 honorarium and said the society should use it where it is most needed.
$1,381 spentof which $3,000 as grants8% of program spendingHeld an in-person tea party to encourage networking for readers and writers of color and their supporters at the Seattle World Science Fiction convention, attended by about 50 people.
$2,083 spent12% of program spendingSwitched to an all-scholarship model for our workshops in response to tax law changes.
$1,921 spent11% of program spendingIsis Asare, our Program Director, and Yasmine Fahmy, our Workshop Coordinator, surveyed the community for feedback on the workshop program
$1,281 spent7% of program spendingResearched avenues to provide community support immediately after Altadena and Eaton fires. Donated $1,000 to Octavia's Bookshelf, a BIPoC book store that pivoted to coordinating assistance to neighborhood residents displaced by the fires.
$230 spentof which $1,000 as grants1% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,776.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $4k to $118k (+2667%).
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.
92% of THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $29.
2 of 3 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 THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY’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 CARL BRANDON SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
98% of THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY'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 funders outside Washington, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k 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
THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY's revenue fell 19% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY?
- THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,092 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($129,970). 2 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 THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $132,092 in grants to THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $129,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CARL BRANDON SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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