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Screen a listThe Muse Writers Center
Can you give?
Listed with the IRS. Every screen came back clear.
A 501(c)(3) on Publication 78 and the IRS master file.
- IRS nonprofit listing
- No issue
- Revocation
- None
- IRS files
- Agree
- Sanctions
- No match
- IRS bulletin
- No notice
- California
- No record
- Charity type
- 509(a)(2)
$608krevenue
FY2025 · +28% in 3 yrs11staff
8 of 8years filed
’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Revenue and spendingRevenueSpendingDeficit
Against similar nonprofits FY2025
Operating margin1.3%
Months of reserve2.1mo
Revenue growth (annualized)+9.4%
Middle half of peersMedianMuse Writers Center
Where the money goes FY2025 · $600k spent
Programs$548k91%Management and general$52k9%990 FY2025 · Part IX line 25
Nothing to check in the filings
In its favor2
Growing faster than peers
Revenue up 9% a year since FY2017, faster than half of similar nonprofits.
990 Part I · peer cohortA history of government grants
Government grants on 4 of its 9 returns, 17% of revenue in FY2025. $160k is traced federal awards from National Endowment for the Arts.
990 Part VIII · USAspending14funders
$59ka year, last 3 years
61%from its largest funder
Funder’17’18’19’20’21’22’23National Book Foundation IncStopped after FY2022$25k$15k–Carter C Chinnis Charitable TrustOn and off$3k$5kBusiness Consortium for Arts SupportStopped after FY2020$1k$2k$2k$2k–Tidewater Children's FoundationNew in FY2023$7kRutter Family Art FoundationOn and off$3kDonor-advised giftsDonors not disclosed$63k$33k$16k$18k$15k$25k$83k
FundedThrough a donor-advised fundStopped