California · Nonprofit
WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS
WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being ELAINE AND BRAM GOLDSMITH FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Writers Bloc Presents does
Mission
To further literature and the literary arts by enhancing the general public's access to authors, writers, journalists, critics and other media personalities.1. Foster the significance and importance of literature and the written word as an art form.2. Enrich the general public's knowledge and awareness of the contemporary writers and thinkers who have made a significant impact on the cultural and literary landscape.3. Enhance the general public's exposure and access to literary and cultural work, thoughts and ideas as represented in and by modern works of fiction and nonfiction.4. Expand the general public's access to and understanding of literature through community-based programs featuring writers,thinkers, public figures and others in conversation on fictional and nonfictional work.5. Create and foster opportunities for dialogue and interaction betweenthe general public and writers, thinkers, public figures or othersabout reading, writing, literature, the literary process, the role
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Organized and offered programs where members of the general public havethe opportunity to interact with contemporary writers, thinkers, andauthors.
$233,130 spent$365,784 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $233,130.
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 $111k to $248k (+123%).
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.
4% of WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS’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
WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 83% — 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
100% of WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS: 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 WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS?
- WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being ELAINE AND BRAM GOLDSMITH FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,000 in grants to WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS?
- ELAINE AND BRAM GOLDSMITH FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WRITERS BLOC PRESENTS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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