Texas · Nonprofit
TORCH LITERARY ARTS
TORCH LITERARY ARTS (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,819 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($376,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $601k
- Net assets
- $153k
What Torch Literary Arts does
Mission
To promote the work of black women by publishing contemporary creative writing by emerging and experienced writers alike, to archive contributors' literary work for posterity and educational purposes, and provide resources and opportunities for the advancement of black women through literary arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Torch magazine: online literary magazine that publishes features monthly across poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and script (plays and screenplays).
$65,307 spent24% of program spendingReading series features notable authors at a public reading to celebrate and promote their current publications and engage the local literary community.
$57,144 spent$4,304 earned by the program21% of program spendingSpecial events: readings, panels, and craft conversations to amplify black women writers and increase awareness of literary arts.
$149,662 spent$7,300 earned by the program55% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $272,113.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $93k to $126k (+36%).
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: 2023 55% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TORCH LITERARY ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Amanda Johnston
Executive director
Board chair
Sequoia Maner
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $222k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 TORCH LITERARY ARTS’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
TORCH LITERARY ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 TORCH LITERARY ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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
86% of TORCH LITERARY ARTS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
TORCH LITERARY ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TORCH LITERARY ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TORCH LITERARY ARTS
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.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TORCH LITERARY ARTS: 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 TORCH LITERARY ARTS?
- TORCH LITERARY ARTS (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,819 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($376,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TORCH LITERARY ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $600,819 in grants to TORCH LITERARY ARTS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TORCH LITERARY ARTS?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $376,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TORCH LITERARY ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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