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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$38,495
Total expenses
$54,759
Contributions and grants received
$0
Grants paid
$54,759
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$38,495
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,190,664
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,190,664
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$54,759
Management and general expenses
$0
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$54,759

Program services were 100.0% 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.

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $25,865 · excluded $25,865

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $187,547

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

    securities $174,917

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $12,630

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $12,630 · excluded $12,630

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $54,759 · program services $54,759

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $987,552 · end of year $1,190,664

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $662,992 · end of year $799,901

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $324,560 · end of year $390,763

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE 0.THE BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY ALLOCATES FUNDS TO THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM, A TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATION. THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM IS AN INDEPENDENT LIBRARY COMMITTED TO MAINTAINING AND AUGMENTING ITS SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS OF HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ART; TO SERVING A BROAD COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS AS A CENTER FOR RESEARCH; TO SERVING ITS MEMBERSHIP AND THE PUBLIC NOT ONLY THROUGH ITS CIRCULATING AND REFERENCE COLLECTIONS BUT ALSO THROUGH LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS; AND TO PRESERVING AND ENHANCING ITS NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDING.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY ALLOCATES FUNDS TO THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM, A TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATION.

  • THE BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY ALLOCATES FUNDS TO THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM, A TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATION. THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM IS AN INDEPENDENT LIBRARY COMMITTED TO MAINTAINING AND AUGMENTING ITS SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS OF HISTORY, LITERATURE AND ART; TO SERVING A BROAD COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS AS A CENTER FOR RESEARCH; TO SERVING ITS MEMBERSHIP AND THE PUBLIC NOT ONLY THROUGH ITS CIRCULATING AND REFERENCE COLLECTIONS BUT ALSO THROUGH LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS; AND TO PRESERVING AND ENHANCING ITS NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDING.

    Expenses $54,759 · Grants $54,759

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Arthur B Page

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Javier Cevallos

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Earl M Collier Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Roger Haynes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Austin V Shapard

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Creelea Henderson Pangaro

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Amy Ryan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Melissa Fetter

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Susan Weatherbie

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Timothy W Diggins

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Leah Rosovsky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $382,772
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $352,724
    Other
    $30,048
    Hours/week
    2 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $348,152 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $4,572 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $28,284 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $1,764 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $382,772 related

  • Christopher Boudrot

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $210,399
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $167,341
    Other
    $43,058
    Hours/week
    2 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $166,534 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $807 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $13,947 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $29,111 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $210,399 related

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

None.

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

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
2023
Filed
29 July 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202512189349300641

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