California · Nonprofit
WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS
WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Wordsmith Productions does
Mission
Wordsmith Productions is an arts and literacy nonprofit serving the public good.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Wordsmith Productions is a small arts and literacy nonprofit that had been located in the California Mojave High Desert since its inception in 2013. We relocated to Los Angeles in April 2020. During this past fiscal year, we continued to offer our adult literacy services prior to the pandemic. We also produce an annual book festival. We produced the fourth annual High Desert Book Festival on October 12, 2019 at the Hesperia Civic Plaza Park in Hesperia, California. The festival was held with the co-sponsorship of the Hesperia Park and Recreation Department and the City of Hesperia. Our book festival consisted of the usual set up of authors who had registered for the event to sell their books, free poetry readings and literary presentations and hundreds of attendees as it was free and open to the public. Our authors came from several California cities and other states to take part in the festival. We also provided free booths to some nonprofits. Our nonprofit received a $5,000 California Humanities For All Quick Grant for our project "Exploring the Literature of the California Deserts." That grant supported a very focused part of our book festival on this subject. It also allowed…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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In California
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS: 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 WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS?
- WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS.
- Who is the largest funder of WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS?
- CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORDSMITH PRODUCTIONS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 1 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