Florida Writers Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
593712917
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Winter Park, FL, USA
Phone
4078011539
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$165,051
Expenses
$214,665
Assets
$213,986
Liabilities
$362

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARY ANN DE STEFANO (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
  • GINNYE CUBEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • MARY ANN DE STEFANO (PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR)
  • MICHAEL FARRELL (VP ADMINISTRATION/MEMBERSHIP)
  • DONNA BROWN (VP FINANCE/TREASURER)

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 Florida writers association provides writers with knowledge, opportunities, and connections to support their goals.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Florida writers association advances the literary arts by providing opportunities for established and emerging writers and related industry professionals to learn, network, and find resources to improve their craft and navigate the publishing industry. This purpose is advanced through sponsoring events and contests, supporting writers groups, disseminating information and ideas via a blog, magazine, and enews, providing networking opportunities, and other activities within the scope of Florida and federal law.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -30.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.