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Filing year 2023

Writers in the Schools

Houston, Texas·EIN 76-0338549·NTEE B20Z · Education·3
Total revenue
$1.6M
Total assets
$1.8M
Total expenses
$1.4M
Reported officers
18
Mission

The mission of Writers in the Schools (WITS) is to connect children and youth with professional writers and spoken word artists to unlock the joy and power of storytelling and creative expression.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2023

Executive Director
$39k
$42k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 17 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Education

Down 70%
from 2022

From $132k in 2022 to $39k in 2023.

$132k
2022
$39k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 71% in real terms$146k to $42k

Estimated with Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into April 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

Writers in the Schools reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$1.2M
$1.9M
2022
$1.6M
$1.4M
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Education executives earn in Texas

Comparable education organizations in Texas pay their highest-earning executive a median of $88,868.

25th percentile
$29k
Median
$88,868
75th percentile
$177k
90th percentile
$315k

These are education sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 562 organizations across 562 filings (2021 – 2023).

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