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THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC

THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being Wyoming Humanities Council ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$224k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$708k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What The Ernest Hemingway Foundation Inc does

Mission

The ernest hemingway foundation was established in 1965 "for the purposes of awakening, sustaining an interest in, promoting, fostering, stimulating, supporting, improving and developing literature and all forms of literary composition and expression." within that context, the foundation's activities have emphasized "the promotion, assistance and coordination of scholarship and studies relating to the works and life of the late ernest hemingway."

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation has taken the lead in advancing hemingway studies through the following program activities:editing and publishing the hemingway review, which appears semi-annually in the spring and fall, and the hemingway newsletter, which comes out each year in winter and summer. These outstanding publications, now edited by suzanne del gizzo and kirk curnutt, are mailed free to members of the society.holding biennial international conferences in even-numbered years, generally alternating overseas sites with those in the united states. Awarding annually the lewis-reynolds-smith founders fellowship to support research and writing on the work and life of ernest hemingway. These competitive awards are made to society members with worthy projects, and are funded in honor of the memory of three outstanding leaders in the society: paul smith, our founding president, robert w. Lewis, a founding member and past president, and michael s. Reynolds, hemingway biographer who was president until shortly before his death in august 2000.sponsoring and funding the annual pen/hemingway award for the best first book of fiction. This $10,000 award is presented at the kennedy library in boston each…

    $206,578 spentof which $43,000 as grants$103,619 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $206,578.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($645k)2018 Revenue 165 ($179k) Expenses 319 ($164k) Net assets 95 ($616k)2019 Revenue 87 ($95k) Expenses 154 ($79k) Net assets 107 ($688k)2020 Revenue 126 ($137k) Expenses 167 ($86k) Net assets 113 ($730k)2021 Revenue 102 ($111k) Expenses 145 ($75k) Net assets 121 ($779k)2022 Revenue 155 ($168k) Expenses 374 ($192k) Net assets 99 ($640k)2023 Revenue 83 ($90k) Expenses 146 ($75k) Net assets 108 ($695k)2024 Revenue 206 ($224k) Expenses 416 ($214k) Net assets 110 ($708k)
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Revenue (206)Expenses (416)Net assets (110)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $779k to $640k (−18%).

$645k
$616k
$699k
$730k
$779k
$640k
$695k
$708k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$57k
’17
$15k
’18
$16k
’19
$51k
’20
$36k
’21
−$24k
’22
$15k
’23
$10k
’24
1.5
months of
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.

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Listed77777577
Joined·+1+2+2+2+0+2+0
No longer listed·1222200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION 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.

Where its funders are

THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

WY

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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

46%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC?
THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being Wyoming Humanities Council ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC?
Wyoming Humanities Council is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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