Agincourt Press Ltd
Overview
Mission
Agincourt press is a small publishing house that seeks to make critical literature accessible to the general audience. It publishes books on literary criticism, philosophy of language, poetics, and their intersection with political science. Also, translation of cultural, scientific, and historic italian books into english for students and universities to disseminate the italian cultural and scientific heritage during the different historic period.
What it reported doing in 2025
Printing and translation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133906458
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.27; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 annual filings from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.