Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Literary arts, multidisciplinary programming, and educational opportunities.
- Income
- $153,543
- Spending
- $114,091
- Reserves
- 23.5 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 96%
- Highest pay
- $58,500, executive dir.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $102,682 spent. 9/19/2025Samplings of Jack Spicer Materials from The Bancroft Library17 registered9/19/2025Book Launch for Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer edited by Daniel Benjamin, Kelly Holt, and Kevin Killian59 attendedExhibition Opening, Fran Herndon: Up to the Aether78 Registered9/20/2025Two Panels on Fran Herndon40 registered9/21/2025Poetry as Magic Workshop20 attendedSept-October 2025Jack Spicer & Fran Herndon Pop Up Exhibit at San Francisco Public LibraryEstimated 350 viewed10/26/2025An Affair for Jack the Modernist87 attended11/30/2025Global Reading in Solidary with PalestineOnline views to date: 3,05612/6/2025A Reading with Christine Imperial & Lara Mimosa Montes30 registered1/25/2026A Memorial for Margaret Tedesco250 registered1/31/2026Friends of Perfection at The Lab150 tickets2/1/2026Friends of Perfection at BAMPFA100 tickets2/28/2026Collective Reading of Dictee125 registeredMarch-April 2026Writing the Unreadable Workshop12 registered4/8/2026A Reading with Tyehimba Jess & Tongo Eisen-Martin65 registered4/25/2026Reading with Terrance Arjoon, Sophia Dahlin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson70 registered5/17/2026Film Screening of Golden Gate: An Oral History of Bay Area Poetics55 registered5/24/2026MOVING AND WRITING Workshop15 registered6/3/2026Dreams, OMENS, and Language: Writers Respond to The Prince of Homburg45 registered
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending June 30, 2026, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Worth knowing.
Status was revoked on May 15, 2018 for not filing returns for three years. The IRS now lists it as tax-exempt again.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending June 2026.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 2021.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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