Electronic Literature Organization
Legal name: Electronic Literature Organzation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364314614
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3605469101
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,860
- Expenses
- $62,074
- Assets
- $65,527
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANASTASIA SALTER (President)
People named in this filing
- DENE GRIGAR (Treasurer)
- DAVIN HECKMAN (Secretary)
- ANASTASIA SALTER (President)
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
An international organization dedicated to the investigation, preservation, and promotion of literature produced for the digital medium.
What it reported doing in 2025
Maintaining an electonic museum, library, and preservation space to provide accessibility to electronic literature for future generations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.