Inlandia Institute Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Three of inlandia's core programs are youth creative literacy and adult creative literacy and literary professional development programs as well as the literary laureate, currently focused on teens. These programs support writers of all levels and ages. This is accomplished through creative writing workshops that range from free to minimal cost. Highlights this year include inlandia's journaling journey from a to zine was a six-week summer camp focused on creativity and nature for primary grades at the ssgt. Salvador j. Lara library, led by young adult leaders from a variety of backgrounds who led the children through a weekly program that combined nature with creative literacy. The weekend writing program for teens at the riverside public library, so you want to be a writer? Brought in diverse guest writers from many genres including journalism to manga to poetry to publishing, so that aspiring young writers could get first-hand professional level experience from writers who look like them. Our teen poet laureate project, in partnership with the riverside county office of education, the city of riverside, and the riverside county library system, spotlights dozens of teen poets who each are honored during an awards ceremony at riverside city hall, with one named that year's teen poet laureate by a panel of esteemed poet jurors. Adult writing workshops included opportunities for marginalized communities, including writing warriors, a memoir writing workshop for seniors, and cartless, for the region's unhoused residents, led by a formerly unhoused individual. Additionally we offered spoken word, flash fiction, and poetry workshops, as well as the bilingual tesoros de cuentos and asl poetry workshops, and does it make cents?, on the business of being a writer. In fy 2024-25, we delivered a total of 152 sessions across 17 workshops and 31 sessions across 14 children and youth creative literacy programs.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 58.9%; rating input score 59
• Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
• Fundraising efficiency: $15.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 30.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings