Liabilities / Assets
59th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Wordsmith Productions
EIN 38-3909997 • 501(c)3 • Venice, CA
Pub. 78 Eligible990-N Coverage
Profile
Wordsmith Productions is an arts and literacy nonprofit serving the public good.
Siviq Scores
Precomputed percentiles relative to similar nonprofits. These scores are descriptive rather than judgmental.
0.00x
Liabilities / Revenue
61st percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Net Margin
51st percentile
Higher net margin than 51% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
Score unavailable
No filing with officer rows is available for this organization yet.
Asset Growth
84th percentile
Faster asset growth than 84% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
59th percentile
Faster revenue growth than 59% of similar nonprofits.
Balance Sheet
Assets
Up$6,478
Up $4,073 (+169%) from 2017
Liabilities
Flat$0
Flat from 2017
Net Assets
$6,478
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Revenue
Up$17,293
Up $2,812 (+19%) from 2017
Expenses
Up$16,927
Up $3,036 (+22%) from 2017
Net Income
Down$366
Down $224 (-38%) from 2017
Trend Graphs
Filings
Most recent year
2020 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.
- Assets
- $6,478
- Liabilities
- $0
- Net assets
- $6,478
- Revenue
- $17,293
- Expenses
- $16,927
- Net income
- $366
| Balance Sheet | Operations | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Assets | Liabilities | Net Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Net Income |
| 2020Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year. | $6.48 | $0.00 | $6.48 | $17.3 | $16.9 | $0.37 |
| 2017Summary only. Only limited summary data is available for this year. | $2.41 | $0.00 | $14.5 | $13.9 | $0.59 | |
| 2014Summary only. Only limited summary data is available for this year. | $2.48 | $0.00 | $3.49 | $2.23 | $1.26 | |
Latest Filing Detail
Jump To
Filing Snapshot
- Filing Period
- Jul 1, 2019 to Jun 30, 2020
- Signed
- Jan 11, 2021
- Return Version
- 2019v5.0
- Gross Receipts
- $17,293
Mission and Program Overview
Mission
Wordsmith Productions is an arts and literacy nonprofit serving the public good.
Program Services
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Wordsmith Productions is a small arts and literacy nonprofit that had been located in the California Mojave High Desert since its inception in 2013. We relocated to Los Angeles in April 2020. During this past fiscal year, we continued to offer our adult literacy services prior to the pandemic. We also produce an annual book festival. We produced the fourth annual High Desert Book Festival on October 12, 2019 at the Hesperia Civic Plaza Park in Hesperia, California. The festival was held with the co-sponsorship of the Hesperia Park and Recreation Department and the City of Hesperia. Our book festival consisted of the usual set up of authors who had registered for the event to sell their books, free poetry readings and literary presentations and hundreds of attendees as it was free and open to the public. Our authors came from several California cities and other states to take part in the festival. We also provided free booths to some nonprofits. Our nonprofit received a $5,000 California Humanities For All Quick Grant for our project "Exploring the Literature of the California Deserts." That grant supported a very focused part of our book festival on this subject. It also allowed us to provide a writing workshop and another speaker at the Hesperia Library on October. 11, 2019. One of our speakers, John Saunders, came from Australia. We had begun to take registration for the 2020 book festival, but we were forced to cancel due to the COVID 19 Pandemic. In light of the pandemic, the one program we successfully created was a partnership with a social services nonprofit in Los Angeles to provide Zoom Tutoring to low income students. | $15,526 | $13,976 |
Compensation and Service Providers
Employees
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davida S James | CEO And Chair | PT | $0 | $350 | $350 |
| Edward Friedman | Vice Chair | PT | $0 | - | - |
| Linda H Thomas | Treasurer | PT | $0 | - | - |
| Sharon Mordecai | Secretary | PT | $0 | - | - |
| David Obayuwana | Board Member | PT | $0 | - | - |
Filing and Contact Details
Filer
- Filer Name
- Wordsmith Productions
- EIN
- 38-3909997
- Phone
- 3102705115
- Address
- 313 Grand Blvd Number 301, Venice, CA 90294
Signing Officer
- Name
- Davida James
- Title
- CEO
- Phone
- 3104355270
- Signed
- 2021-01-11
Supplemental Narrative
Additional Explanations
Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16
“Description;Amount^bank fees;214|Hotel and travel;502|Event Insurance;313|Rental of event equipment and space;2922|Internet hosting;260|food and refreshments;570|Office Supplies;381|Memberships;350|Advertising;1555|Phone;342|Equipment;3622^Total;11031^”
Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20
“We acquired additional inventory this fiscal year.”
Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 21
“We acquired additional assets this fiscal year in the amount of $3622”
Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24
“This amount is existing inventory of supplies, tables, chairs and literacy inventory that we owned prior to this year.”
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| IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt | 0 | Wordsmith Productions is a small arts and literacy nonprofit that had been located in the California Mojave High Desert since its inception in 2013. We relocated to Los Angeles in April 2020. During this past fiscal year, we continued to offer our adult literacy services prior to the pandemic. We also produce an annual book festival. We produced the fourth annual High Desert Book Festival on October 12, 2019 at the Hesperia Civic Plaza Park in Hesperia, California. The festival was held with the co-sponsorship of the Hesperia Park and Recreation Department and the City of Hesperia. Our book festival consisted of the usual set up of authors who had registered for the event to sell their books, free poetry readings and literary presentations and hundreds of attendees as it was free and open to the public. Our authors came from several California cities and other states to take part in the festival. We also provided free booths to some nonprofits. Our nonprofit received a $5,000 California Humanities For All Quick Grant for our project "Exploring the Literature of the California Deserts." That grant supported a very focused part of our book festival on this subject. It also allowed us to provide a writing workshop and another speaker at the Hesperia Library on October. 11, 2019. One of our speakers, John Saunders, came from Australia. We had begun to take registration for the 2020 book festival, but we were forced to cancel due to the COVID 19 Pandemic. In light of the pandemic, the one program we successfully created was a partnership with a social services nonprofit in Los Angeles to provide Zoom Tutoring to low income students. |
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| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 0 | Description;Amount^bank fees;214|Hotel and travel;502|Event Insurance;313|Rental of event equipment and space;2922|Internet hosting;260|food and refreshments;570|Office Supplies;381|Memberships;350|Advertising;1555|Phone;342|Equipment;3622^Total;11031^ |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 1 | We acquired additional inventory this fiscal year. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 2 | We acquired additional assets this fiscal year in the amount of $3622 |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 3 | This amount is existing inventory of supplies, tables, chairs and literacy inventory that we owned prior to this year. |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 0 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 1 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 2 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 21 |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 3 | Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 |
| ReasonableCauseExplanation/ExplanationTxt | 0 | Because our fiscal year ends June 30th, we are required to file by the end of November. It was our understanding that there was an automatic extension due to the current pandemic. We took that into account while conducting another program that was online and part of our nonprofit mission. |
| ReturnHeader/BuildTS | 0 | 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z |
| ReturnHeader/BusinessOfficerGrp/PersonNm | 0 | Davida James |
| ReturnHeader/BusinessOfficerGrp/PersonTitleTxt | 0 | CEO |
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| ReturnHeader/BusinessOfficerGrp/SignatureDt | 0 | 2021-01-11 |
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| ReturnHeader/ReturnTs | 0 | 2021-01-11T16:28:39-07:00 |
| ReturnHeader/ReturnTypeCd | 0 | 990EZ |
| ReturnHeader/TaxPeriodBeginDt | 0 | 2019-07-01 |
| ReturnHeader/TaxPeriodEndDt | 0 | 2020-06-30 |
| ReturnHeader/TaxYr | 0 | 2019 |
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