Council of Literary Magazines
New York, NY · EIN 52-6074500. Reported 127 grants totalling $4,471,678 to 78 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 78 distinct organizations, with 69% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 63% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $12,500; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $1,746,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various - See Attached Pdf | New York, NY | $3,100,350 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Center for the Art of Translation | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| One Story Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $55,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | New York, NY | $52,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Shout Mouse Press Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Electric Lit Inc | Kingston, NY | $45,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Orion Society | Gt Barrington, MA | $42,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bellevue Literary Press Inc | New York, NY | $35,332 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Feminist Press Inc | New York, NY | $35,288 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Archipelago Books Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $35,078 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nightboat Books Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Omnidawn Publishing Incorporated | Richmond, CA | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bellevue Literary Review Inc | New York, NY | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Short Fiction Inc | Austin, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts | Anchorage, AK | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Guernica Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $25,625 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alice James Poetry Cooperative Inc | New Gloucester, ME | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bard College | Annandale, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Graywolf Press | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| James Madison University Foundation Inc | Harrisonburg, VA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Muslims for Progressive Values Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oxford American Literary Project Inc | Little Rock, AR | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Philippine American Writers and Artists Inc | Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rain Taxi Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Swan Isle Press Inc | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation Inc | Windham, ME | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Epiphany Magazine Inc | New York, NY | $20,625 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Callaloo Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sinister Wisdom Inc | Dover, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bamboo Ridge Press | Honolulu, HI | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Futurepoem Inc | New York, NY | $16,130 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cardboard House Press | Phoenix, AZ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Puss Press LLC | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Full Stop Magazine Inc | New York, NY | $13,125 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lampblack Literary Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $13,125 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| African Voices Communications Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blackwater Press LLC | Charleston, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Board of Trustees of Illinois State University | Normal, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brink Literacy Project | Elbert, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bull City Press LLC | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cavankerry Press Ltd | Fort Lee, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centro De Economia Creativa Inc | San Juan, PR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Circumference Books | Pearland, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coffee House Press Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conduit Books & Ephemera | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deep Vellum Publishing | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Flood Editions Nfp | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gasher Press | Gilbert, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Green Linden Press | Grinnell, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gulf Coast-a Journal of Literature & Fine Arts | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Review of Books | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lugar Comun Inc | Miami Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mcsweeneys Literary Arts Fund | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Narrative Magazine Inc | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Noemi Press | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Passager | Pikesville, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rescue Press | Iowa City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rose Metal Press Inc | Brookline, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tupelo Press Inc | North Adams, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ugly Duckling Presse Ltd | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Visual Arts Exchange | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Public Space Literary Projects Inc | New York, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Canopy Canopy Canopy Inc | New York, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Common Foundation Inc | Amherst, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Consequence Magazine Inc | Hull, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| N1 Foundation Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Essay Press Publishers Inc | Buffalo, NY | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Off the Park Press Inc | Beacon, NY | $6,625 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ayin Institute Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Contra Mundum Press (v) | Brooklyn, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Drift Magazine Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lilith Publications Inc | New York, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Literary Freedom Project Inc | Bronx, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Minerva Projects | Pine Plains, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Poetry Mailing List Inc | East Rockaway, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Room- a Sketchbook for Analytic Action | Dover, DE | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soapbox - the Feminist Foundation | New York, NY | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
31 of 78 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Various - See Attached Pdf
Emergency Program Funding - Electric Lit Inc
ALP GRANT TO ELECTRIC LIT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 61 of 78 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | $1,353,600 | $1,353,600 |
| 2021 | 1 | $1,746,750 | $1,746,750 |
| 2022 | 31 | $364,375 | $12,500 |
| 2023 | 39 | $473,203 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 55 | $533,750 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
82% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Council of Literary Magazines's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 90 Broad Street Suite 2100, New York, NY, 10004.
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