Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024
Filed by MARS REVIEW OF BOOKS FOUNDATION.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $65,456
- Total expenses
- $71,602
- Contributions and grants received
- $43,638
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $10,461
- Investment income (line 4)
- $0
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $11,357
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $10,247
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $6,222
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $4,025
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $88,850
Program services were 124.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
The mission of the Mars Review of Books Foundation is to encourage and foster public appreciation of the literary arts and global understanding of critical public policy issues through the publication of a magazine and books, and through the hosting of events and symposia.
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Production and publication of Mars Review of Books Issue 5 and 6
Expenses $44,209
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Production of the The Mars Review of Books Podcast
Expenses $22,775
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Production of Aaron Swartz Statue (Fiscal Sponsorship)
Expenses $21,866
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Noah Kumin
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $31,723
- Compensation
- $31,723
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Nick Simmons
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Christopher Catoya
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Weyland Joyner
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Assets distributed on this return
Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.
This return attached Schedule N but itemized no distributions.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 16 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202543209349200859
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