FRIENDS OF WRITERS INC

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Reduce your risk when donating: see where the money actually goes.

2025 · Form 990 · revenue $521K · expenses $246K · assets $3.5M

Also known as

C/O AGA LLC

EIN

03-0330253

Address

PO BOX 1670, MORRISVILLE, VT 05661-1670

Website

FRIENDSOFWRITERS.ORG

NTEE code

B82 Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards (Education) inferred (by a small language model from the name and 990 text, confidence 0.80; not an IRS classification)

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

May 1993 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

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Mission

FRIENDS OF WRITERS (FOW) MISSION IS TO FOSTER VITAL LITERARY VOICES AND INITIATIVES. OUR VISION IS A WORLD IN WHICH LITERARY COMMUNITY IS VIBRANT, INCLUSIVE, AND WELL-SUPPORTED. WE DO THIS BY SOLICITING, MANAGING, AND DISBURSING FUNDS TO SUPPORT WRITERS AS THEY SEEK AND FULFILL THEIR POTENTIAL THROUGH GRADUATE STUDY AND BEYOND.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

None of the 53 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

53 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• FOUR WAY BOOKS INC New York, NY · 2 people in common (Ellen Bryant Voigt, Martha Rhodes)
• KIMBILIO Saint Louis, MO · 2 people in common (David Haynes, Elizabeth T Gray Jr)

Funders of this organization

7 grantors reported grants to this organization, $518,258 in all, tax years 2012 to 2023. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.