Liabilities / Assets
59th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
EIN 04-3411371 • 501(c)3 • Rockland, MA
Profile
This corporation is organized for educational, cultural, and literary purposes, including the origination, sponsoring, and holding of meetings, workshops, film showings, art shows, conventions, and other events concerning fantasy and science fiction, to bring together those who are involved in fantasy and science fiction at all levels, whether in appreciation or through their profession, for their mutual education, and to carry on any business in the furtherance of the foregoing and not inconsistent with the constraints applied by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended.
Precomputed percentiles relative to similar nonprofits. These scores are descriptive rather than judgmental.
Liabilities / Assets
59th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Liabilities / Revenue
61st percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Net Margin
64th percentile
Higher net margin than 64% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
84th percentile
Higher top officer pay than 84% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 0.0% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
Score unavailable
No earlier valid filing was available within the previous three public years.
Revenue Growth
Score unavailable
No earlier valid filing was available within the previous three public years.
Assets
$43,799
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Liabilities
$0
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Net Assets
$43,799
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Revenue
$59,850
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Expenses
$53,703
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Net Income
$6,147
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Most recent year
2024 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.
This corporation is organized for educational, cultural, and literary purposes, including the origination, sponsoring, and holding of meetings, workshops, film showings, art shows, conventions, and other events concerning fantasy and science fiction, to bring together those who are involved in fantasy and science fiction at all levels, whether in appreciation or through their profession, for their mutual education, and to carry on any business in the furtherance of the foregoing and not inconsistent with the constraints applied by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended.
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| The organization has run 28 workshops, beginning in 1997. With about 24 students per year, we have served over 600 writers in that time. Our students have gone on to win major awards in the genre, including Hugo and Nebula Awards, and gone on to successful literary careers. | $0 | $53,703 |
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teresa Nielsen Hayden | President | - | $0 | - | - |
| Sarah Wishnevsky | Vice President | - | $0 | - | - |
| Lauren Roy | Treasurer | PT | $0 | - | - |
| Scott Lynch | Clerk | - | $0 | - | - |
| Patrick Nielsen Hayden | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Bart Patton | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Macallister Stone | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Daryl Gregory | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Max Gladstone | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
“Travel expenses for two scholarship recipients. $158 bus fare and $570 airfare.”
“Advertising $637 Fees $1316 Operating Expenses $2756 Software $2446 Travel $14406”
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| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 1 | Advertising $637 Fees $1316 Operating Expenses $2756 Software $2446 Travel $14406 |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 0 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 1 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 |
| ReturnHeader/BuildTS | 0 | 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z |
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