Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by HISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL AT LEWES INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $278,969
- Total expenses
- $326,753
- Contributions and grants received
- $209,655
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $69,314
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $41,741
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $89,525
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- -$47,784
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $309,420
- Management and general expenses
- $14,235
- Fundraising expenses
- $3,098
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $309,420
Program services were 94.7% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$209,655
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2a · Program service revenue: TICKET SALES
total $69,314 · related or exempt $69,314
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $900 · management and general $900
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11g · Fees: other
total $7,121 · program services $1,900 · management and general $2,123 · fundraising $3,098
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $38,842 · program services $38,842
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13 · Office expenses
total $10,817 · management and general $10,817
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $363 · program services $363
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23 · Insurance
total $1,709 · program services $1,709
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24a · Other expenses: CONTRACT SERVICES
total $140,548 · program services $140,548
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24b · Other expenses: PRODUCTION
total $60,979 · program services $60,979
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24c · Other expenses: BOOKS
total $60,059 · program services $60,059
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24d · Other expenses: OUTREACH
total $4,348 · program services $4,348
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24e · All other expenses
total $1,067 · program services $672 · management and general $395
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
end of year $41,741
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
end of year $89,525
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
end of year -$47,784
Mission and programs · 2024
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.
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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 2024, HBF WELCOMED 6,907 ATTENDEES FROM 20 STATES TO HEAR 24 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 TWENTY AUTHOR EVENTS AND DONATED BOOKS FOR PRIMARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOLS IN SEVEN DISTRICTS IN DELAWARE, REACHING 2,101 STUDENTS.
Expenses $309,420 · Revenue $69,314
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Matthew AshMATTHEW ASH
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Susan KehoeSUSAN KEHOE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Rebecca LoweREBECCA LOWE
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Jennifer MasonJENNIFER MASON
CHAIR/PRESID
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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A Thomas OwenA THOMAS OWEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Peter ZollPETER 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
- 2024
- Filed
- 13 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202523219349308547
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