Washington Writers Publishing House Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237357102
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,052
Expenses
$46,509
Assets
$73,284

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Caroline Bock (Co-President)
  • Jona Colson (Co-President)
  • Elizabeth Bruce (Vice President Compliance)
  • Kathleen Wheaton (Vice President Fiction)
  • Robert Williams (Vice President Production)
  • Holly Karapetkova (Vice President Poetry)

People named in this filing

  • Caroline Bock (Co-President)
  • Jona Colson (Co-President)
  • Elizabeth Bruce (Vice President Compliance)

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

Washington Writers Publishing House WWPH is a nonprofit literary organization dedicated to fostering and promoting literary arts in the Washington DC region. WWPH supports writers and readers through the publication of poetry fiction and creative nonfiction; the presentation of readings salons and community literary events; and the administration of competitions and grants that expand access to literary expression. Its programs provide opportunities for emerging and established authors to share their work engage audiences and strengthen the regional literary community.

What it reported doing in 2025

WWPH supported literary arts programming through the publication promotion and presentation of works by local and regional authors. During the reporting period the organization generated $12,202 in program service revenue from book sales literary events and submission fees. It incurred approximately $46,509 in program service-related expenses to support author payments book production literary events readings and related program activities. These efforts advanced the organizations exempt purpose of fostering literary expression expanding access to literary arts and strengthening the regional literary community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -131.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -134.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -30.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.