Petrichor Publishing Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331599448
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Prairie Village, KS, USA
Phone
9132063388
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Printing, Publishing

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$105
Assets
$629
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Abigail Shaffer (Executive Director)
  • Abigail Shaffer (President, Board of Directors)
  • Jessica Merrigan (Board Member, Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Abigail Shaffer (Executive Director)
  • Abigail Shaffer (President, Board of Directors)
  • Jessica Merrigan (Board Member, Vice 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

Publish literature & art in digital & print formats that share the work of underrepresented creatives. To mitigate a common barrier of entry into publishing with paid positions. To support events to educate the public & share art with the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Website purchased/created on Squarespace 12/6/24 and annual renewal paid 12/6/25. Website crucial to functioning. Is primary platform to handle functions of corporation. It will also be the primary "public face" of the corporation. For example, clients may submit submissions for publication consideration via our web site. Digital journal will also operate through this website. Marketing and promotion will come from from website. The web site is the hub of the organization. Without it, we can't function. Purchasing the web site subscription is an essential step in beginning and maintaining operations.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.99; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -54.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $421 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.