Southwest Writers Workshop

Analysis

Southwest Writers Workshop is a registered charity in United States, based in Albuquerque, NM. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1989, 37 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Southwest Writers Workshop reported income of $55k and spending of $48k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $48k to $55k (+15%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Southwest Writers Workshop sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 21% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 21st percentile, and in the 17th percentile within NM. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sanatan Dharam Maha Sabha of the West Indies Inc ($55k), The Newport Public Library Foundation Inc ($55k) and Alive in the Spirits Ministries Inc ($55k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 24% of the total. At year end it held assets of $62k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $62k.