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The Mythopeic Sociey

The Mythopeic Sociey (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,207 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$25k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$85k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Mythopeic Sociey does

Mission

Book Discussion and Review of Fantasy Books

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Mythlore Scholarly Journal - Published 2 Issues as per schedule - Printing, postage, maillist Maintenance

    $12,073 spent
    82% of program spending
  2. Mythprint Quarterly - Our membership newsletter - 4 issues - Currently they are all sent electronically - so no expenses

  3. Mythopoeic Press - Our small press arm publishing scholarly books and out of print oddities. Juried process, books are published when ready. We now publish via POD so we have only limited stock of older books.

    $670 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. Mythic Circle - Annual juried fiction journal - 1 issue published each year - Printing postage expense

    $434 spent
    3% of program spending
  5. Mythopoeic Conference Mythcon - our annual conference with papers and panels and our Annual Meeting of the members.

    $1,598 spent
    11% of program spending
  6. Online Midyear Seminar - held once a year as a pure online event, using Zoom for panels and Discord for discussions and other events. Zoom is included in General telephone expenses

The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,775.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2021 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 94 ($16k) Net assets 112 ($89k)2022 Revenue 131 ($33k) Expenses 214 ($37k) Net assets 109 ($87k)2023 Revenue 99 ($25k) Expenses 154 ($26k) Net assets 107 ($85k)
2020202120222023
Revenue (99)Expenses (154)Net assets (107)

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 $112k to $119k (+7%).

$112k
$119k
$113k
$116k
2020202120222023
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’20
$9k
’21
−$3k
’22
−$1k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $72.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Mythopeic Sociey’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 Mythopeic Sociey leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 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

The Mythopeic Sociey draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like The Mythopeic Sociey

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.

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05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Mythopeic Sociey: 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 Mythopeic Sociey?
The Mythopeic Sociey (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,207 to it, the largest being THE CONRU FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Mythopeic Sociey have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,207 in grants to The Mythopeic Sociey, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Mythopeic Sociey?
THE CONRU FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Mythopeic Sociey find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 2 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