Arts, Culture & Humanities
The Organization For Transformative Works Inc
NEW YORK, NY
Total revenue
$877K
Total expenses
$599K
Net assets
$3.7M
Grants received
$344K
31 grants
EIN
383765024
Tax year
2024
Mission
The organization for transformative works (otw) is a non-profit organization run by and for fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and fan cultures.
Programs
4 programs
In 2024, fanlore saw over 5,000 new pages and over 163,000 edits made, bringing it to 72,936 total pages, which have been edited 1,531,996 times since its founding. 2024 also brought the creation of 21,496 new user accounts. With help from systems, fanlore was upgraded to mediawiki 1.39, which included stability improvements, code tweaks, and bug fixes.the committee celebrated and awarded badges for their annual ifd challenge, bingo challenge, and stub september challenge. Fanlore also partnered with communications' fanhackers to run an exciting fandom friendships challenge, inspired by fanhacker's zine of the same theme. This fanlore challenge encouraged users to broaden their fannish horizons by completing six edits to a wide range of fanlore article types, all in the theme of fandom friendship.
Transformative works and cultures released three issues in 2024: no. 42, a special issue on "fandoms and platforms," in march; no. 43, a general issue, in september; and no. 44, a special issue on "centering blackness in fan studies," in december. All three issues were released on schedule - continuing twc's publication record since the journal's founding.
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Financials
FY 2024
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People
8 listed
ANH PHAM
PRESIDENT
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5 hrs/wk
ZIXIN ZHANG
BOARD MEMBER
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5 hrs/wk
JENNIFER HAYNES
BOARD MEMBER
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5 hrs/wk
ERICA FRANK
BOARD MEMBER
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5 hrs/wk
RACHEL LINTON
BOARD MEMBER
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5 hrs/wk
KATHERYN SODERHOLM
VICE PRESIDENT
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5 hrs/wk
QIAO CHU
SECRETARY
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5 hrs/wk
YUECHIANG LUO
TREASURER
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5 hrs/wk
Grants received
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Funded by
$344K from 12 funders · 31 grants · 2018–2024
$207K · 6 grants · 2019–2024
$114K · 4 grants · 2020–2023
$20K · 1 grant · 2021
$605 · 5 grants · 2022–2024
$500 · 1 grant · 2024
$375 · 3 grants · 2020–2022
$175 · 2 grants · 2020–2022
$150 · 2 grants · 2022