Funding search · EIN 133347524 · New York, NY

National Book Foundation

Name: National Book Foundation grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

111
grants reported: $1.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $15,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

arts emergency literary building capacity

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop2 grants · $60,000
Zora Neale Hurstonrichard Wright Foundation1 grant · $50,000
Word Up Community Bookshop1 grant · $50,000
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation1 grant · $50,000
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia1 grant · $40,000
Texas Book Festival2 grants · $35,000
Gemini Series Inc (Dba Gemini Ink)2 grants · $35,000
Austin Bat Cave1 grant · $25,000
Bay Area Book Festival1 grant · $25,000
Chapter 510 Ink1 grant · $25,000

Giving over time

$1.6M

2021

$210,000

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 111 grants.

$50,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop · St Paul, MN · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$50,000
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation · Miami, FL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$50,000
Word Up Community Bookshop · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$50,000
Zora Neale Hurstonrichard Wright Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$40,000
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Association of Writers & Writing Programs · Riverdale Park, MD · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Austin Bat Cave · Austin, TX · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Bay Area Book Festival · Berkeley, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Brooklyn Book Festival · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Chapter 510 Ink · Oakland, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Community-Word Project · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Gemini Series Inc (Dba Gemini Ink) · San Antonio, TX · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Kearny Street Workshop · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Literary Arts · Portland, OR · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
National Novel Writing Month · Berkeley, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Roots Wounds Words · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Seattle Arts & Lectures · Seattle, WA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Storyville Center for the Spoken Word · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Texas Book Festival · Austin, TX · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
The Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$25,000
Writers in the Schools · Houston, TX · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Adirondack Center for Writing · Saranac Lake, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Artefactus Cultural Project · Miami, FL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Behind the Book · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Boston Book Festival · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Buckeye Authors Book Fair Committee · Wooster, OH · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Carnegie Literacy Center · Lexington, KY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Citylit Project · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Cuatrogatos Foundation · Miami, FL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Fund for Educational Excellence · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Fusion Partnership · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Girls Write Now · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Greensboro Literary Organization · Greensboro, NC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Grub Street · Greensboro, NC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Herstory Writers Workshop · Centerreach, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
In Black Ink · Saint Paul, MN · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Inprint · Houston, TX · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Kimbilio · Saint Louis, MO · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Metro Dc Community Center Dba the Dc Center for the Lgbt Community · Washington, DC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Miami Dade College Foundation · Miami, FL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Pen American Center · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Red Salmon Arts · Austin, TX · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Room Project Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
San Antonio Festival of Books · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Somos (the Society of the Muse of the Southwest) · Taos, NM · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Southern Lit Alliance · Chattanooga, TN · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Tennessee Williams Festival · New Orleans, LA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Alabama Writers' Forum · Montgomery, AL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The American Literary Translators Association at the University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Foundation for Women Writing for a Change of Jacksonville Inchestia · Jacksonville, FL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Loft · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Muse Writers Center · Norfolk, VA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Penfaulkner Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Porch Writers' Collective · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Tuxedo Project · Detroit, MI · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
The Word a Storytelling Sanctuary · Denver, CO · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Wordplay Cincy · Cincinnati, OH · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Write Around Portland · Portland, OR · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Writers and Books · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Yallfest Charleson · Charleston, SC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$15,000
Ymca of Central New York · Syracuse, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
826dc · Washington, DC · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
City Arts & Lectures · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Cleveland Kids' Book Bank · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Everybody Wins Dc · Washington, DC · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Gemini Series Inc (Dba Gemini Ink) · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Girls Write Now · New York, NY · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Inprint · Houston, TX · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Lighthouse Writers Workshop · Denver, CO · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Literary Cleveland · Cleveland Heights, OH · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop · St Paul, MN · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Nebraska Writers Collective · Omaha, NE · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Penfaulkner Foundation · Santa Ysabel, CA · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Teachers and Writers Collaborative · New York, NY · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Texas Book Festival · Austin, TX · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
The Muse Writers Center · Norfolk, VA · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
The Porch Writers' Collective · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
The Writer'S Center · Bethesda, MD · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Tulsa Literary Coalition · Tulsa, OK · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Woodland Pattern · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Writers and Books · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Capacity-building grant program
$10,000
Anaphora Literary Arts · Santa Monica, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Bookmarks · Winston Salem, NC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
City Lore · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Contextos · Chicago, IL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation · Dayton, OH · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Fishtrap · Enterprise, OR · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
House of Speakeasy Foundation · New York, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Literary Freedom Project · Bronx, NY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Louisville Story Program · Louisville, KY · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance · Portland, ME · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Make Literary Productions Nfp · Chicago, IL · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
North Carolina Writers' Network · Winstonsalem, NC · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Philippine American Writers and Artists · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Simpson Literary Project Dba New Literary Project · Oakland, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant
$10,000
Small Press Distribution · Berkeley, CA · 2021
Literary arts emergency fund grant

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.