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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by HISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL AT LEWES INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$231,323
Total expenses
$167,747
Contributions and grants received
$192,703
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$38,620
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$40,006
Total liabilities, end of year
$24,214
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$15,792
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$161,482
Management and general expenses
$5,265
Fundraising expenses
$1,000
Program service expenses (Part III)
$161,482

Program services were 96.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $192,703

  • 2a · Program service revenue: TICKET SALES

    total $38,620 · related or exempt $38,620

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $2,760 · management and general $2,760

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,259 · management and general $259 · fundraising $1,000

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $15,505 · program services $15,505

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $2,106 · management and general $2,106

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $523 · program services $523

  • 24a · Other expenses: CONTRACT SERVICES

    total $86,450 · program services $86,450

  • 24b · Other expenses: PRODUCTION

    total $36,032 · program services $36,032

  • 24c · Other expenses: BOOKS

    total $17,058 · program services $17,058

  • 24d · Other expenses: OUTREACH

    total $4,417 · program services $4,417

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,637 · program services $1,497 · management and general $140

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $41,741 · end of year $40,006

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $89,525 · end of year $24,214

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year -$47,784 · end of year $15,792

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE HISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL BRINGS AUTHORS AND READERS OF ALL AGES TOGETHER TO EXPLORE AND CELEBRATE HISTORY AND STORY. WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND CIVIL DIALOG TO CHANGE THE FUTURE FOR THE BETTER.

  • THE HISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL BUILDS HISTORICAL LITERACY, MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, AND A BROAD SENSE OF COMMUNITY VIA AN ANNUAL BOOK FESTIVAL, SPECIAL AUTHOR EVENTS, AND AUTHOR VISITS TO SCHOOLS. IN 2025, HBF WELCOMED 5,727 ATTENDEES FROM 25 STATES TO HEAR 22 AUTHORS OF NEW WORKS OF HISTORICAL FICTION AND NARRATIVE NONFICTION, COLLABORATING WITH REGIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL NONPROFITS WHOSE MISSIONS ALIGNED WITH SPECIFIC BOOKS/AUTHORS. IN ADDITION, HBF PRODUCED 14 AUTHOR EVENTS AND DONATED BOOKS FOR PRIMARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOLS IN EIGHT DISTRICTS IN DELAWARE, REACHING 1,512 STUDENTS.

    Expenses $161,482 · Revenue $38,620

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Matthew Ash

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Susan Heller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Kehoe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rebecca Lowe

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jennifer Mason

    CHAIR/PRESID

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Peter Zoll

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
3 March 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202640779349300739

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