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← ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,052,652
Total expenses
$878,228
Contributions and grants received
$945,331
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$87,506
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$19,815
Total assets, end of year
$1,276,743
Total liabilities, end of year
$225,126
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,051,617
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$590,810
Management and general expenses
$164,635
Fundraising expenses
$122,783
Program service expenses (Part III)
$590,810

Program services were 67.3% 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.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $53,636

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $113,985

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $777,710

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MEMBERSHIP INCOME

    total $87,506 · related or exempt $87,506

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $20,039 · excluded $20,039

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $9,550

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

    $53,636

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $9,550

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $435,300

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $444,197

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total -$8,897 · related or exempt -$8,897

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $8,673 · excluded $8,673

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $8,673

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $77,000 · program services $46,200 · management and general $15,400 · fundraising $15,400

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $242,798 · program services $132,887 · management and general $54,956 · fundraising $54,955

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $6,918 · program services $3,874 · management and general $1,522 · fundraising $1,522

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $36,882 · program services $20,654 · management and general $8,114 · fundraising $8,114

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $25,809 · program services $14,453 · management and general $5,678 · fundraising $5,678

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $45,196 · management and general $45,196

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $27,943 · program services $15,648 · management and general $6,147 · fundraising $6,148

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $34,649 · program services $18,039 · management and general $8,589 · fundraising $8,021

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $60,333 · program services $55,402 · management and general $2,466 · fundraising $2,465

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $45,990 · program services $45,990

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $32,521 · program services $18,212 · management and general $7,155 · fundraising $7,154

  • 17 · Travel

    total $8,883 · program services $8,883

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $8,901 · program services $4,985 · fundraising $3,916

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $4,372 · program services $2,448 · management and general $962 · fundraising $962

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,026 · program services $1,135 · management and general $446 · fundraising $445

  • 24a · Other expenses: WAREHOUSE/DISTRIBUTION

    total $181,627 · program services $181,627

  • 24b · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $36,380 · program services $20,373 · management and general $8,004 · fundraising $8,003

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $129,097 · end of year $84,684

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $24,128 · end of year $71,717

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $15,000 · end of year $143,030

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $149,795 · end of year $55,555

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $807,161 · end of year $854,063

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

    $19,538

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

    $10,974

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $10,566 · end of year $8,564

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $84,848 · end of year $59,130

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $227,037 · end of year $138,349

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $35,521 · end of year $30,762

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $80,844 · end of year $56,015

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $820,313 · end of year $867,761

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $56,880 · end of year $183,856

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT PRESS DEVOTED TO PUBLISHING OUTSTANDING TRANSLATIONS OF VITAL WORKS OF CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE. IN OUR TWENTY-ONE YEARS, WE HAVE BROUGHT OUT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE BOOKS FROM MORE THAN FORTY LANGUAGES.ARTISTIC EXCHANGE BETWEEN CULTURES IS A CRUCIAL ASPECT OF GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING. IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT FOR VOICES FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO BE HEARD IN THIS COUNTRY-OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD DEPENDS UPON IT. SADLY, LESS THAN THREE PERCENT OF NEW LITERATURE PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES ORIGINATES OUTSIDE THE ANGLOSPHERE. BY PUBLISHING DIVERSE AND INNOVATIVE LITERARY TRANSLATIONS, WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO CHANGE THIS LAMENTABLE CIRCUMSTANCE AND TO BROADEN THE AMERICAN LITERARY LANDSCAPE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT PRESS DEVOTED TO PUBLISHING OUTSTANDING TRANSLATIONS OF VITAL WORKS OF CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE. IN OUR TWENTY-ONE YEARS, WE HAVE BROUGHT OUT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE BOOKS FROM MORE THAN FORTY LANGUAGES.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $590,810

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Matthew Brogan

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Florence Lui

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dave Haan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Von Ziegesar

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Gibson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Violaine Huisman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ludovic Tiako

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Maslow

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tess Lewis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Dean

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisabeth During

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edwin Frank

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 11/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Moody

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lorraine Gallard

    BOARD MEMBER (THRU 09/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Assal Ghawami

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ricka Kohnstamm

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Marcus

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Josefowicz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jill Schoolman

    PUBLISHER/EXECUTIVE DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $77,000
    From this org
    $77,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
14 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202611359349303321

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