← NORMAN B LEVENTHAL MAP & EDUCATION CENTER INC

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by NORMAN B LEVENTHAL MAP & EDUCATION CENTER INC.

Totals

Total revenue: $1,826,938
Total expenses: $1,341,755
Contributions and grants received: $1,657,261
Grants paid: $0
Program service revenue: $12,700
Investment income: $154,485
Other revenue: $2,492
Total assets, end of year: $5,389,479
Total liabilities, end of year: $242,855
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $5,146,624
Program services expenses (Part IX): $957,636
Management and general expenses: $354,682
Fundraising expenses: $29,437
Program service expenses (Part III): $957,636

Program services were 71.4% 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.

1e · Government grants (contributions)

$898,601
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$758,660
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$3,056
2a · Program service revenue: Workshops and classes

total $12,700 · related or exempt $12,700
3 · Investment income

total $132,400 · excluded $132,400
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $25,065
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $2,980
7c · Gain or loss

securities $22,085
7d · Net gain or loss

total $22,085 · excluded $22,085
10a · Gross sales of inventory

$2,530
10b · Cost of goods sold

$38
10c · Net income from sales of inventory

total $2,492 · related or exempt $2,492

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $195,375 · program services $102,522 · management and general $89,954 · fundraising $2,899
7 · Other salaries and wages

total $557,184 · program services $484,911 · management and general $50,001 · fundraising $22,272
8 · Pension plan contributions

total $13,521 · program services $7,095 · management and general $6,225 · fundraising $201
9 · Other employee benefits

total $69,821 · program services $36,638 · management and general $32,147 · fundraising $1,036
10 · Payroll taxes

total $58,167 · program services $30,523 · management and general $26,781 · fundraising $863
11c · Fees: accounting

total $68,881 · management and general $68,881
11f · Fees: investment management

total $4,242 · management and general $4,242
11g · Fees: other

total $244,621 · program services $206,226 · management and general $38,395
12 · Advertising and promotion

total $8,756 · program services $8,756
13 · Office expenses

total $42,948 · program services $14,292 · management and general $27,828 · fundraising $828
14 · Information technology

total $8,136 · program services $5,046 · management and general $3,090
17 · Travel

total $14,986 · program services $14,616 · management and general $370
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $13,295 · program services $8,428 · management and general $3,529 · fundraising $1,338
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

total $6,484 · program services $6,484
23 · Insurance

total $3,239 · management and general $3,239
24a · Other expenses: Map Preservation

total $30,794 · program services $30,794
24b · Other expenses: Map Acquisition

total $1,305 · program services $1,305

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $558,454 · end of year $502,865
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

beginning of year $1,505,908 · end of year $1,732,760
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $102,058 · end of year $72,044
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $3,663 · end of year $3,599
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

$448,890
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

$445,542
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

beginning of year $9,832 · end of year $3,348
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

beginning of year $2,389,978 · end of year $2,958,290
12 · Investments: other securities

beginning of year $99,069 · end of year $116,573
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $82,979 · end of year $242,855
19 · Deferred revenue

beginning of year $105,476 · end of year $0
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $4,178,327 · end of year $4,843,570
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $302,180 · end of year $303,054

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library shall inspire curiosity and learning, and foster geographic perspectives on the relationships between people and places, through free and accessible collections and resources, critical interpretation and research, and K-12 public education.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To inspire curiosity and learning

Collections: The Center stewards the cartographic collections of the Boston Public Library, encompassing a quarter million maps and other objects, ensuring the preservation, cataloging, organization and digitization of the collection. Areas of particular strength are our four "Collections of Distinction": Boston & New England, the American Revolutionary era, urban maps and maritime maps. Public access is a major part of our mission and we offer reference services for the collection including assistance in geographic information services (GIS) and support fellowships to carry out research in the collection to develop new scholarship.The Center also has an extensive digital resources available on our website for public and educational use, increasing access to our collections and educational materials. Our digital collection includes 12,000 digitized maps including our American Revolutionary War era cross-institutional collection of more than 2,000 digitized maps from partner institutions such as the British Library and Library of Congress. Many digitized maps have been georeferenced, enabling overlays of modern maps, and some are also mosaicked and tiled to enhance digital access. This includes maps from our urban atlas collection, which can be explored as overlays of different maps over time using our mobile app/web tool Atlascope. In addition, all past and current exhibitions are available in digital form on our website. Digitized material from our collections has been used in numerous web and print publications and digital humanities projects.

Expenses $317,159 · Revenue $12,700
Exhibitions and Public Outreach: The Center has presented 26 exhibitions since 2004. Exhibitions have traveled to New York, Washington DC, and Williamsburg as well as to other locations within the city of Boston. Showcasing items from the collection, exhibitions have highlighted such important subjects as the Revolutionary War and Civil War periods, 19th and 20th century immigration, voting patterns and rights, women's role in cartography, mapping of climate patterns, urban green spaces and U.S. westward expansion in the 19th century. Audiences upwards of 60,000 attend each gallery exhibition, including area residents, library patrons, tourists, researchers, students and teachers.All exhibitions are accompanied by a series of lectures and panel discussions with scholars and authors that explore themes related to the exhibition, with emphasis on relevance to contemporary issues. In addition, local micro-history and geography are explored in community events that use our Atlascope tool. Community partnerships add breadth and depth to both public and educational program offerings, including partnerships with faculty from area universities, and staff of municipal and non-profit organizations.

Expenses $470,848
Education Outreach: The Center is recognized as a national leader in innovative education programs that use cartographic materials and methods. Our K-12 programs are based in best practices for primary sources and inquiry-based teaching and fulfill local and national standards. These programs harness the power of maps and mapping to make a broad range of topics come alive in the K-12 classroom and onsite. The center offers professional development for educators via institutes, workshops and fellowships. We develop map sets and curriculum materials, often in collaboration with teacher advisors and fellows. Our online resources include a wide variety of maps sets, lesson plans and tools to help teacher use maps effectively in their classrooms. (Continued on Schedule O)Half of our educational service is to the Boston public schools, and to these and to other schools in need, education programs are offered free of charge.

Expenses $169,629 · Revenue $2,492

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

Listed in Part VII

John D Childs

Board Member (start 10/2024)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Diana Fernandez-Bibeau

Board Member (start 10/2024)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Khurram Jamil

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Matthew Kiefer Esq

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Theodore Landsmark

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
David Leonard

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Alexander Leventhal

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Raymond Liu

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jack Lynch

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Dava Newman

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Richard Pegg

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Barry Ruderman

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Oscar Santos

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
William J Schnoor Esq

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Natacha Scott

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Allison D Webster Esq

Board Member (start 10/2024)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Christian J Westra Esq

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Charles L Cooney PhD

Board Member, Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Alex Krieger

Board Member, Vice Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Janet P Atkins

Board Member, Vice Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michael Contompasis

Board Member, Vice Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ronald P O'Hanley

Board Member, Vice Chair

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Michelle Knight

Board Member, Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Erin Claywell

Board Member, Clerk

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Garrett Nelson

President

Total calculated

$195,375

From this org

$187,345

From related orgs

$0

Other

$8,030

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$173,227

Bonus

$14,000

Other

$118

Deferred

$5,455

Nontaxable benefits

$2,575

Filer's total

$195,375

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 · Compensation survey or study
3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
7 · Other non-fixed payments

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
8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 3: The board reviews the compensation for the President and uses comparability data to determine that the compensation is appropriate for the individual's involvement, experience, and ability.
Part I, Line 7: From time-to-time and as deemed appropriate by the Organization's Board and/or its top management personnel, the Organization may award non-fixed compensation in the form of incentive pay or bonuses. Such payments will be made in accordance with proper compensation review and approval procedures and in alignment with clearly defined performance goals and metrics.

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.

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2024
Filed: 13 February 2026
IRS schema version: 2024v5.5
Source object: 202630499349300513

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