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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$8,024,613
Total expenses
$3,554,583
Contributions and grants received
$7,811,630
Grants paid
$95,063
Program service revenue
$3,225
Investment income
$262,938
Other revenue
-$53,180
Total assets, end of year
$13,695,078
Total liabilities, end of year
$148,453
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$13,546,625
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,474,080
Management and general expenses
$954,689
Fundraising expenses
$125,814
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,474,080

Program services were 69.6% 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.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $7,669

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $418,274

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $1,215,080

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $6,170,607

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $58,544

  • 2a · Program service revenue: ARCHIVE FEES

    total $3,200 · related or exempt $3,200

  • 2b · Program service revenue: SALES OF BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

    total $25 · related or exempt $25

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $371,530 · excluded $371,530

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $2,315 · excluded $2,315

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $795,851

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $904,443

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$108,592

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$108,592 · excluded -$108,592

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $106,761

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $418,274

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $106,761

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: FOREIGN EXHANGE LOSS

    total -$55,495 · excluded -$55,495

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    -$55,495

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $95,063 · program services $95,063

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $187,639 · management and general $187,639

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,447,473 · program services $1,118,704 · management and general $241,447 · fundraising $87,322

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $111,334 · program services $76,010 · management and general $29,503 · fundraising $5,821

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $88,338 · management and general $88,338

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $669,828 · program services $562,953 · management and general $106,875

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $130,400 · program services $52,357 · management and general $58,072 · fundraising $19,971

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $412,039 · program services $218,850 · management and general $189,916 · fundraising $3,273

  • 17 · Travel

    total $47,186 · program services $31,526 · management and general $15,622 · fundraising $38

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $5,537 · program services $1,449 · management and general $4,013 · fundraising $75

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $37,083 · program services $9,855 · management and general $26,728 · fundraising $500

  • 24a · Other expenses: BOOKS, MATERIAL, MICROF

    total $224,445 · program services $217,589 · management and general $3,307 · fundraising $3,549

  • 24b · Other expenses: EXHIBIT FABRICATION

    total $44,980 · program services $44,980

  • 24c · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $44,837 · program services $36,343 · management and general $3,229 · fundraising $5,265

  • 24d · Other expenses: HONORARIUM FEES

    total $8,401 · program services $8,401

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $746,947 · end of year $1,316,253

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,085,234 · end of year $311,701

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,037,028 · end of year $246,076

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $7,255 · end of year $5,980

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $31,222 · end of year $36,450

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $347,102

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $315,683

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $33,056 · end of year $31,419

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $7,381,906 · end of year $11,638,737

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $108,462

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $27,078 · end of year $37,069

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $280,793

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $111,384

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,410,838 · end of year $2,884,089

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,603,939 · end of year $10,662,536

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE IS TO STUDY AND PRESERVE THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF GERMAN-SPEAKING JEWRY.

  • LIBRARY - THE LIBRARY OF THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE IS INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE REPOSITORY FOR BOOKS DOCUMENTING THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF GERMAN-SPEAKING JEWRY. OVER 80,000 VOLUMES AND 900 PERIODICAL TITLES PROVIDE IMPORTANT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIAL. RICH IN RARITIES RANGING FROM EARLY 16TH CENTURY WRITINGS, TO MOSES MENDELSSOHN AND HEINRICH HEINE, AND FIRST EDITIONS AND DEDICATION COPIES OF WORKS BY MORE RECENT PROMINENT WRITERS, MANY OF ITS VOLUMES WERE SALVAGED FROM FAMOUS JEWISH LIBRARIES THAT WERE CONFISCATED AND DISPERSED BY THE NAZIS. MOST OF THE COLLECTION DEALS WITH CENTRAL EUROPEAN JEWRY DURING THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES. (CONTINUED ON SCHED O)(CONTINUED FROM PART III 4A) IT ALSO INCLUDES MATERIAL DATING BACK AS FAR AS THE 16TH CENTURY AND IS AS CURRENT AS THE JEWISH POPULATION IN GERMANY TODAY. THE FOCUS OF THE COLLECTION IS ON THE DIVERSE CULTURE OF GERMAN-SPEAKING JEWRY, ESPECIALLY IN THE ARTS, SCIENCES, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION.

    Expenses $444,819

  • ARCHIVES - THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE ARCHIVES IS THE OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS OF ITS KIND. INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS HAVE DEPOSITED THEIR DOCUMENTS AT THE LBI. FAMILY PAPERS, COMMUNITY HISTORIES, AND BUSINESS AND PUBLIC RECORDS DATE BACK CENTURIES AND TOUCH UPON VIRTUALLY EVERY PHASE OF GERMAN-JEWISH LIFE. A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF OVER 2,000 MEMOIRS OFFERS RARE INSIGHTS INTO THE LIVES OF GERMAN JEWS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE FROM 1790 TO THE POST-WAR ERA.

    Expenses $922,010 · Revenue $3,225

  • ARTS AND EXHIBITS - IN ADDITION TO THE ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS AND BOOKS HELD BY THE INSTITUTE, THE COLLECTIONS INCLUDE OVER 6,000 THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS. OVER ONE-HALF OF THE ART AND OBJECT COLLECTIONS ARE WORKS CREATED BY GERMAN-JEWISH ARTISTS AND/OR BROUGHT OUT OF GERMANY BY REFUGEES. THE BALANCE OF THE MATERIALS ARE OBJECTS THAT THE FAMILIES FOUND IMPORTANT TO TAKE OUT OF GERMANY, INCLUDING RELIGIOUS ITEMS, MILITARY MEDALS, PHOTO ALBUMS, AND MUCH MORE. THE INSTITUTE USES THESE OBJECTS IN EXHIBITIONS WHEN TELLING THE STORY OF GERMAN-SPEAKING JEWRY.

    Expenses $162,697

  • Expenses $944,554 · Grants $95,063

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • David Sorkin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marian Scheuer Sofaer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Raymond Vj Schrag

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles E Scheidt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert S Rifkind

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Nemitz

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael A Meyer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Abraham F Lowenthal

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joan C Lessing

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Josef Joffe

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Danielle Spera

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael G Jesselson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bernard Blum

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kenneth A Bamberger

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emary Aronson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dennis Baum

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Houston

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Werner Gundersheimer

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David W Detjen

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael A Bamberger

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David G Marwell

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James N Dreyfus

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Huberta Von Voss-Wittig

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William H Weitzer

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THRU 10/2022)

    Total calculated
    $205,036
    From this org
    $204,457
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $579
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $204,457
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $579
    Filer's total
    $205,036
  • Markus Krah

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $57,072
    From this org
    $55,604
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,468
    Hours/week
    35
  • Frank Mecklenburg

    DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $140,219
    From this org
    $132,035
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,184
    Hours/week
    35

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
8 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202343139349300214

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