Zoeglossia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813965839
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2103443330
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,945
- Expenses
- $57,382
- Assets
- $145,329
- Liabilities
- $59
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MEG DAY (CHAIR/PRESID)
- ORCHID TIERNEY PHD (CO-CHAIR/VP)
- MICHAEL DAVIDSON (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Zoeglossia is a literary organization with a mission to foster an open, supportive, and engaged community that champions and celebrates disability culture, poetics, and creativity. Through its offerings, zoeglossia strives to widen access to arts opportunities and professional development for disabled poets and writers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Amplified disabled poets by publishing their work in the poem of the week series and hosting poems from the series on the zoeglossia website. There were 6 poets published and 2 poets were engaged and highlighted as curators for the series. Each curator provided a curatorial statement for the month they curated. The poem of the week series aims to create a significant archive of disability poems. Accessibility for the series includes audio files for each poem and image descriptions for photos presented. Poem of the week pages received 4,563 views at zoeglossia's website in 2024. In support of strengthening the organization's practices and programs, zoeglossia held a listening process which engaged its fellows in two fellow-only gatherings, a question and answer session with zoeglossia's director, a gathering of fellows with the board of directors, one-on-one meetings, and an online feedback survey. At least 25 of the existing 51 fellows participated in these activities. These sessions also provided space for the fellow community to meet and have discussions with one another, thus strengthening community amongst fellows. The contractor who led this process provided feedback to the board on ways to strengthen the organization and its offerings. Provided professional development stipends to 16 fellows of up to 350. These stipends supplied reimbursement and/or direct payments to contractors/organizations in support of fellows submitting poems/manuscripts for contests/publication; covering fees related to craft-related professional opportunities such as residencies, workshops, conferences; accessing manuscript consultations; and other services related to networking, gaining new skills, and/or making their writing more widely available.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.5%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 65.6%; rating input score 66
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: 29.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.53; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -38.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.5% of revenue deployed · 65.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.