New York · Nonprofit
WRITOPIA LAB INC
WRITOPIA LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,742,606 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($866,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $-296083
What Writopia Lab Inc does
Mission
Writopia Lab is a not-for-profit organization that fosters joy, literacy, and critical thinking in children and teens from all backgrounds through creative writing. We do this by:1)Providing young people with the creative inspiration and intellectual environment that may not be available to them at school.2)Helping each student become comfortable with expressing himself on paper and to ultimately cultivate (or maintain) a love of writing in each of them.3)Creating and sustain a diverse community of young writers who find commonalities in a shared passion for ideas and expression.4)Offering discounted or waived fees to at least 40% of workshop participants.5)Providing an open, safe, and nurturing space for young people who are highly engaged in creative and intellectual endeavors.6)Providing an open, safe, and nurturing space for young people who struggle with verbal and written expression.7)Identifying ways that creative youth who struggle academically can use their gifts to further th
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1) Provided young people with the creative inspiration and intellectual environment that may not be available to them at school.2) Helped each student become comfortable with expressing himself on paper and to ultimately cultivate (or maintain) a love of writing in each of them. 3) Createe and sustained a diverse community of young writers who find commonalities in a shared passion for ideas and expression.4) Offered discounted or waived fees to at least 40% of workshop participants.5) Provided an open, safe, and nurturing space for young people who are highly engaged in creative and intellectual endeavors.6) Provided an open, safe, and nurturing space for young people who struggle with verbal and written expression.7) Identified ways that creative youth who struggle academically can use their gifts to further their academic success.
$3,021,624 spent$3,029,608 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,021,624.
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 $1.2M to $2.5M (+102%).
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 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of WRITOPIA LAB INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $108k → $277k.
10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 WRITOPIA LAB INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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
WRITOPIA LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 WRITOPIA LAB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 37% · 2019 49% · 2020 45% · 2021 70% · 2022 90% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of WRITOPIA LAB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
100% of WRITOPIA LAB INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $446k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WRITOPIA LAB INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WRITOPIA LAB INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WRITOPIA LAB INC?
- WRITOPIA LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,742,606 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($866,800). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WRITOPIA LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,742,606 in grants to WRITOPIA LAB INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WRITOPIA LAB INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $866,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WRITOPIA LAB INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing