2025-04-21T18:40:25-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 881480693 ESCAPE ARTISTS FOUNDATION INC ESCA PO BOX 83 WOODSTOCK GA 30188 MARGUERITE KENNER PRESIDENT 3395294650 2025-04-22 1 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X ESCAPE ARTISTS MARGUERITE KENNER PO BOX 83 WOODSTOCK GA 30188 113870 0 X WWW.ESCAPEARTISTS.NET X 2022 GA Escape Artists Foundation builds a community of writers, voice artists & fans by podcasting free, audio speculative short fiction. 5 4 0 15 0 0 5600 113513 0 0 357 5600 113870 0 0 43702 0 12989 5600 60602 5600 104304 0 9566 0 15657 0 6091 0 9566 Escape Artists podcasts free, audio speculative short fiction to a global audience & builds a community of people who love to create & appreciate science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult fiction. 0 0 81563 0 0 In 2023 Escape Artists Foundation published 218 podcast episodes. We published our 3000th story since our founding in 2005. Our podcasts received significant recognition from our industry including: finalist for World Science Fiction Society Hugo Best Semiprozine (PodCastle & Escape Pod), shortlisted for IGNYTE Awards' Best Podcast (PodCastle & PseudoPod), shortlisted for British Fantasy Awards' Best Audio Fiction (PseudoPod). 0 0 0 Our fantasy fiction podcast PodCastle celebrated its 15th anniversary with a series featuring interviews from all past editors, stories performed by full casts, & by publishing our 800th story ('D.I.Y.' by John Wiswell, a Hugo, Locus & Nebula finalist). PodCastle was a finalist or shortlisted for: 2023 World Science Fiction Society Hugo Awards' Best Semiprozine, 2023 IGNYTE Awards' Best Podcast, and 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work. In 2023 PodCastle also published several award-winning stories, including 'The Morning House' by Kate Heartfield (World Fantasy Award finalist) and '(emet)' by Lauren Ring (2022 World Fantasy Award winner for Short Fiction). 0 0 0 Several of our stories were finalists or won awards from leading institutions including: Utopia Awards, British Science Fiction Assc., New England Science Fiction Assc., World Fantasy Awards, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Assc. Nebula Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, Washington Science Fiction Assc., and Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild Aurealis Awards. For the first time, two of our short stories were reprinted in 'Best of' anthologies: 'The CRISPR Cookbook: A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Abortion in a Post-Roe World' by MKRNYILGLD (in 'Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy') and '-Like Stars Daring To Shine' by Somto Ihezue ('Year's Best African Speculative Fiction'). 0 0 0 81563 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 GA X GRATIS NON-PROFIT ACCOUNTING LLC 3395294650 PO BOX 86 WOODSTOCK GA 30188 SCARLETT ROSS MANAGER/BOARD SECRETARY 4 0 X X 3722 0 0 ALEX HOFELICH EDITOR/BOARD MEMBER 12 0 X 1500 0 0 MUR LAFFERTY EDITOR/BOARD MEMBER 12 0 X 500 0 0 MARGUERITE KENNER PRESIDENT/BOARD CHAIR/TREASURER 15 0 X X 100 0 0 ALASDAIR STUART VICE-PRESIDENT/VICE-BOARD CHAIR 5 0 X X 0 0 0 5822 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 113513 2522 113513 0 0 0 0 0 0 357 0 357 357 0 0 0 113870 357 0 0 5822 5722 100 37880 30682 6368 830 1095 1095 58 58 1091 1078 13 3301 1981 660 660 42100 42100 PAYMENT PROCESSING FEES 11441 0 0 11441 BANK FEES 1516 0 1516 0 104304 81563 9752 12989 9657 6000 0 15657 6091 0 0 6091 X 0 9566 0 0 0 0 0 9566 0 15657 X 9566 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 5600 113513 119113 0 0 0 0 357 357 0 0 0 5600 113870 119470 5600 5110 10710 0 0 0 5600 5110 10710 108760 0 0 0 5600 113870 119470 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Central America and the Caribbean 0 2 Program Services Podcast publishing 279 East Asia and the Pacific 0 16 Program Services Podcast publishing 2109 Europe (including Iceland and Greenland) 0 49 Program Services Podcast publishing 17157 Middle East and North Africa 0 1 Program Services Podcast publishing 135 North America (including Canada and Mexico, but not the United States) 0 20 Program Services Podcast publishing 4658 South America 0 2 Program Services Podcast publishing 130 South Asia 0 4 Program Services Podcast publishing 1119 Sub-Saharan Africa 0 8 Program Services Podcast publishing 3006 0 102 28593 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 3 CASH METHOD, ALL AMOUNTS SHOWN ARE EXPENDITURES MARGUERITE KENNER PRES/CHAIR/TREAS OPERATIONS X 6091 6091 0 0 0 6091 Form 990, Header, Line B 1) Donations of $15,366 for in-kind services and their associated expenses were included in the original Form 990 2023 in error. 2) Changed Part X Line 27 to $0 to remove value entered in error. Escape Artists Foundation Inc. does not follow FASB ASC 958. 3) Corrected several calculation and rounding errors. 4) Added answers to Part V, lines 7a-7f, 15 and 16. Form 990, Part I, Line 17 2024 OTHER EXPENSES = ROYALITES TO AUTHORS/NARRATORS $42,100 + PAYMENT PROCESSING $11,441 + IT EXPENSE $3301 + BANK FEES $1516 + OTHER EXPENSE $2244. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b After preparation, the Form 990 is reviewed by the President and by the Head of Fundraising. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Compliance is reviewed twice each year by the President. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents, conflict of interest policy & financial statements are available upon request. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Correction for rounding. Amended return.