Arizona · Nonprofit
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS (Arizona) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,217 to it, the largest being THE STOCKER FOUNDATION ($210,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $982k
- Net assets
- $837k
What Tucson Festival of Books does
Mission
The Tucson Festival of Books is a premier, free-to-attend, family-friendly celebration of literature that engages our community. We present notable recently published authors from all genres to discuss big ideas and express creativity freely.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Tucson Festival of Books is a community-wide celebration of literature. Activities include author panels and workshops on literary and book-centered topics. The festival features hundreds of local and national exhibitors with literacy-focused booths and activities. Attendees can meet and interact with authors, purchase books and book-themed merch and learn about local nonprofits. The festival is sponsored by numerous philanthropies and corporate partnerships and free to the public. The 2025 festival reached an estimated attendance of 130,000 people with presentations from 350 authors, including 86 presentations geared toward children, parents and educators. Over 200 exhibitors offered books and literacy-related education and products to the community and 5,000 books were given away to children.
$1,146,043 spentof which $150,000 as grants$412,191 earned by the program99% of program spendingTucson Festival of Books also hosts a literary awards program and master's workshop, which completed its 13th year in 2025. More than 50 authors attended, with judging and instruction provided by prominent authors.
$15,462 spent$25,828 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,161,505.
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 2024 to 2025, from $776k to $1.1M (+37%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Abra Mcandrew
Executive director as of august 2024
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $49k → $103k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS’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
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 88% · 2019 45% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 38% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
69% of TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: 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 TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS?
- TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS (Arizona) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $982,217 to it, the largest being THE STOCKER FOUNDATION ($210,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $982,217 in grants to TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS?
- THE STOCKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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