Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$72,681

Total expenses

$664,533

Contributions and grants received

$0

Grants paid

$662,500

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$72,681

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$1,221,402

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,221,402

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$662,500

Management and general expenses

$2,033

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$662,500

Program services were 99.7% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Washington Papers - the project was established to publish a comprehensive edition of Washington's correspondence, including letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by him. The complete edition will consist of approximately eighty-seven volumes. Today there are copies of over 140,000 Washington documents in the project's document room. This is one of the richest collections of American historical manuscripts extant. There is almost no facet of research on life and enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods that will not be enhanced by material from these documents. The publication of Washington's papers will make this source material available not only to scholars but to all Americans interested in the founding of their nation.

  Expenses $207,500 · Grants $207,500

• Adams Papers - the project was founded to prepare a comprehensive published edition of the manuscripts written and received by the family of John Adams of Quincy, Massachusetts. The Adams Family Papers manuscript collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society forms the nucleus of the project. In addition, the editors have gathered over 27,000 copies of Adams items from hundreds of libraries, institutions, and individuals in the United States and abroad. The project's cutoff date is 1889, the year Abigail Brooks Adams died. The editors do not edit the Adams's words; rather they continue the search for Adams documents, select the material to be included in the edition, provide a faithful transcription of the manuscripts, and supply annotation. To date, 46 volumes have been published by Harvard University Press.

  Expenses $202,500 · Grants $202,500

• James Madison - The project was established to publish annotated volumes of the correspondence and writings of James Madison, the Virginia statesman most often remembered for his public service as "Father of the Constitution as fourth president of the United States. The published volumes provide accurate texts of Madison's incoming and outgoing correspondence, informative notes on textual and subject matters, and comprehensive indexes. They are incomparably rich sources for students of Madison's life and valuable research tools for those interested in the general history of the period in which Madison lived (1751-1836).

  Expenses $159,000 · Grants $159,000

• Jefferson Papers - preparing the authoritative and comprehensive edition of the correspondence and papers of our nation's third president. Jefferson's letters are the largest component of the more than 70,000 documents that have been assembled as photocopies from over 900 repositories and private collections worldwide. Careful research and collaborative scholarship produced the first volume, which set new standards for the organization and editorial presentation of historical documents. Forty-four volumes in the chronological series have been published to date. Today, through ongoing chronological and topical publication of the volumes as well as new digital access and multifaceted outreach efforts, this important correspondence in our nation's documentary heritage is made widely available.

  Expenses $49,250 · Grants $49,250

• Benjamin Franklin - The Project is a collaborative undertaking by a team of scholars at Yale University to collect, edit and publish the writings and papers of one of America's most remarkable founding fathers and indeed one of the most extraordinary people this nation has ever produced. His ever-curious and inventive mind explored nearly every aspect of his world, both pragmatic and theoretical, and he corresponded with an astonishing range of men and women of all classes and nearly all professions in America, Great Britain, and Europe. In a life spanning from 1706-1790, his collected papers present a panoramic view of the eighteenth century.

  Expenses $44,250 · Grants $44,250

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• University of Virginia

  $366,500

  Research & Publication

• Massachusetts Historical Society

  $202,500

  Research & Publication

• Trustees of Princeton University

  $49,250

  Research & Publication

• Yale University

  $44,250

  Research & Publication

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.

• Yale University

  501(c)(3) · Education · CT

  Directly controlled by NA

• University of Virginia

  501(c)(3) · Education · VA

  Directly controlled by NA

• Trustees of Princeton University

  501(c)(3) · Education · NJ

  Directly controlled by NA

• Massachusetts Historical Society

  501(c)(3) · Research Library · MA

  Directly controlled by NA

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

17 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202543219349307804

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