Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943029180
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4156175885
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $153,543
- Expenses
- $114,091
- Assets
- $223,478
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melissa Mack (President)
People named in this filing
- Maxe Crandall (Executive Dir.)
- Krystal Languell (Treasurer)
- Melissa Mack (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
Literary arts, multidisciplinary programming, and educational opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2025
9/19/2025Samplings of Jack Spicer Materials from The Bancroft Library17 registered9/19/2025Book Launch for Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer edited by Daniel Benjamin, Kelly Holt, and Kevin Killian59 attendedExhibition Opening, Fran Herndon: Up to the Aether78 Registered9/20/2025Two Panels on Fran Herndon40 registered9/21/2025Poetry as Magic Workshop20 attendedSept-October 2025Jack Spicer & Fran Herndon Pop Up Exhibit at San Francisco Public LibraryEstimated 350 viewed10/26/2025An Affair for Jack the Modernist87 attended11/30/2025Global Reading in Solidary with PalestineOnline views to date: 3,05612/6/2025A Reading with Christine Imperial & Lara Mimosa Montes30 registered1/25/2026A Memorial for Margaret Tedesco250 registered1/31/2026Friends of Perfection at The Lab150 tickets2/1/2026Friends of Perfection at BAMPFA100 tickets2/28/2026Collective Reading of Dictee125 registeredMarch-April 2026Writing the Unreadable Workshop12 registered4/8/2026A Reading with Tyehimba Jess & Tongo Eisen-Martin65 registered4/25/2026Reading with Terrance Arjoon, Sophia Dahlin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson70 registered5/17/2026Film Screening of Golden Gate: An Oral History of Bay Area Poetics55 registered5/24/2026MOVING AND WRITING Workshop15 registered6/3/2026Dreams, OMENS, and Language: Writers Respond to The Prince of Homburg45 registered
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and the available information about grant readiness automatic revocation leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.