NonprofitsThe Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc

Arts, Culture & Humanities

The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc

THORNTON, CO

Total revenue

$470K

Total expenses

$496K

Net assets

Grants received

$334K

14 grants

EIN

831668794

Tax year

2024

Mission

To promote voices from underserved communities and diverse backgrounds, to honor the stories of those who have faced adversity and injustice, and to provide a sanctuary space where these groups will see themselves in literature.

Programs

7 programs

Community Engagement: The Word hosts regular in-person and virtual events to help connect writers to each other, connect industry professionals to writers and promote issues and topics of importance to The Word community. In this fiscal year, a main community engagement program ran from September 2023 through June 2024, when The Word hosted a Denver metro-wide reading and event series of Natalie Diazs Postcolonial Love Poems. Public programming included book distribution, community dialogues, book discussions, dramatic readings, visual art exhibits, and activities around bookmaking and art-making and culminated with a keynote event featuring Natalie Diaz.

Expenses: $57K

Word Unbound:A virtual literary workshop series that will focus on topics less explored by other literary programs opening up to unbounded, creative and even wild ideas in writing and publishing, open to participants of all identities and backgrounds.

Expenses: $57K

Coalition Building Programs: The Word works to collaborate with other literary organizations and individuals to strengthen the leadership from within communities of marginalized creatives. Examples include coalition work connecting the leadership of other literary conferences and festivals, and group meetings for leaders of similar literary organizations.

Expenses: $55K

Editor-Writer Mentorship: The Editor-Writer Mentorship pairs upcoming writers from marginalized backgrounds with experienced book publishing editors for a year-long mentor experience.

Expenses: $43K

Livingston Fellowship:A three-year program that provides development and professional growth and support for The Words leadership to support a healthy organization. The Livingston program was established by the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation to strengthen and support organizations through formal and informal professional advancement activities for leadership.

Expenses: $29K

#MarginsBookselling:#MarginsBookselling celebrates booksellers and bookstores, centering BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, disabled and neurodiverse communities and supports over 200 booksellers. This includes the annual BIPOC Bookseller Award, the only of its kind currently in the U.S., celebrating three booksellers in the areas of activism, innovation and leadership, whose dedication to indie bookstores, and their BIPOC colleagues and communities, has positively influenced the industry.

Expenses: $26K

Bookseller Award

Expenses: $1K

Financials

FY 2024

Revenue

Contributions & grants$470K
Program service revenue
Investment income$54
Other revenue
Total revenue$470K

Expenses

Grants paid
Salaries & benefits$13K
Fundraising
Other expenses$483K
Total expenses$496K
Total assets$46K
Net assets

People

7 listed

NameRoleCompensation

Viniyanka Prasad

Exec Dir

Board

$85K

40 hrs/wk

Michelle Malonzo

Co-Exec Dir

Board

$80K

40 hrs/wk

Bunmi Ishola

Secretary

Board

2 hrs/wk

Deidre Dumpson

Co-Chair

Board

2 hrs/wk

Andrea Giron Mathern

Treasurer

Board

1 hrs/wk

Britt Camacho

Member

Board

2 hrs/wk

Manuel Aragon

Co-Chair

Board

2 hrs/wk

Grants received

Showing 14 of 14

FromAmountPurposeYear
$100K
GENERAL OPERATING
2024
$26K
GENERAL PURPOSE, HEALTH
2024
$20K
Arts in Society Project
2024
$8K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2024
$45K
EQUITY IN VERSE
2023
$20K
NEA Big Read 2023-2024
2023
$8K
General operating support
2023
$5K
ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES N.E.C.
2023
$27K
ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES NEC
2022
$15K
GENERAL PURPOSE
2022
$15K
LITERARY ARTS EMERGENCY FUND GRANT
2021
$20K
PROGRAM & OPERATING SUPPORT
2020
$10K
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
2020

Funded by

$334K from 11 funders · 14 grants · 2018–2024

The Poetry Foundation

$45K · 1 grant · 2023

The Denver Foundation

$42K · 3 grants · 2020–2023

Colorado Gives Foundation

$41K · 2 grants · 2022–2024

Redline

$20K · 1 grant · 2024

Arts Midwest Incorporated

$20K · 1 grant · 2023

Chinook Fund Inc

$20K · 1 grant · 2020

Fractured Atlas Inc

$15K · 1 grant · 2018

Details

EIN831668794
NTEE codeA99
Subsection03
Ruling date2019-07
Formed2018
Employees4
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