Art & Literature Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934755885
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,660
Expenses
$13,589
Assets
$1,076

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mark Granza (Chairman-President)

People named in this filing

  • Mark Granza (Chairman-President)
  • Benjamin Braddock (Board-Vice Chair)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Art & Literature Foundations mission is to support and foster cultural and sociopolitical analysis by artists through literary publications.

What it reported doing in 2025

Art & Literature Foundation The Charity published long-form intellectual essays cultural commentary and investigative journalism on a wide variety of topics through its online publication im1776.com and its printed magazine IM Issues. The Charity released two print editions: one in the Summer and one in the Winter. The Charity published hundreds of articles by many different authors on its website and produced printed issues of the magazine. This activity is conducted by contractors and employees of Charity in conjunction with independent writers researchers authors and artists.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -7.3%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -61.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -69.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -121.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.