Utah · Nonprofit
TORREY HOUSE PRESS
TORREY HOUSE PRESS (Utah) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,773 to it, the largest being JEFFREY S & HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION ($242,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $500k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $601k
- Net assets
- $122k
What Torrey House Press does
Mission
Nonprofit literary book publisher Torrey House Press publishes and promotes eight to eleven new titles each year, elevating literary excellence and unheard voices. THP authors explore the diversity of human experiences and relationships with place and engage with communities throughout the United States. THP books create conversations about issues that concern the American West, landscape, literature, and the future of our ever-changing planet.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Torrey House Press publishes and promotes eight to eleven new titles each year while also supporting backlist titles and authors as we implement the mission to publish books elevating literary excellence and unheard voices. We identify exceptional writers, nurture their work, and engage the widest possible audience. We accept unsolicited manuscripts, seek out new writers at writers conferences and workshops, and work with returning authors on new projects. Torrey House Press authors engage with readers and communities through 150-200 events each year. Torrey House Press books are distributed to the book trade through Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.
$485,637 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $485,637.
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. 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 $166k to $235k (+42%).
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: 2018 67% · 2019 73% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 117% · 2023 7% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of TORREY HOUSE PRESS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Kirsten Johanna Allen
Executive Director
Board chair
Rose Chilcoat
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $18k → $111k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 TORREY HOUSE PRESS’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
TORREY HOUSE PRESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 TORREY HOUSE PRESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 94% · 2019 60% · 2020 28% · 2021 37% · 2022 33% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of TORREY HOUSE PRESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of TORREY HOUSE PRESS's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TORREY HOUSE PRESS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding TORREY HOUSE PRESS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
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 TORREY HOUSE PRESS
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TORREY HOUSE PRESS: 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 TORREY HOUSE PRESS?
- TORREY HOUSE PRESS (Utah) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $600,773 to it, the largest being JEFFREY S & HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION ($242,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TORREY HOUSE PRESS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $600,773 in grants to TORREY HOUSE PRESS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TORREY HOUSE PRESS?
- JEFFREY S & HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $242,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TORREY HOUSE PRESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 19 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