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Form 990-PF for tax year 2023

Filed by AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,818,444
Total expenses
$4,960,140
Contributions and grants received
$137,118
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$809,107
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$111,358,414

Listed in Part VIII

  • Cody Upton

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $303,115
    Compensation
    $282,808
    Benefit plans
    $0
    Expense account
    $20,307
    Hours/week
    40
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mel Chin

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR ART

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joan Jonas

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR ART

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Sillman

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR ART

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hilton Als

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR LITERATURE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jane Smiley

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR LITERATURE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Muldoon

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR LITERATURE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alvin Singleton

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR MUSIC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Augusta Read Thomas

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR MUSIC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edward Hirsch

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ann Hamilton

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Annabelle Selldorff

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR ARCHITECTURE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Billie Tsien

    VICE PRESIDENT FOR ARCHITECTURE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: 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 paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$809,107
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$809,107
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

  • SALVATORE SCIBONA

    $66,666

    BROOKLYN, NY

    TO PROVIDE A WRITER AN INCOME THUS ELIMINATING THEIR NEED TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE OF WRITING

  • LAURA VAN DEN BERG

    $50,000

    SANFORD, FL

    TO PROVIDE A WRITER AN INCOME THUS ELIMINATING THEIR NEED TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE OF WRITING

  • LAURA ELISE SCHWENDINGER

    $35,000

    MADISON, WI

    TO HONOR EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AS A COMPOSER OF OPERA.

  • MASHA GESSEN

    $25,000

    NEW YORK, NY

    TO HONOR AN EXCEPTIONAL NON-FICTION WRITER.

  • BRUCE NORRIS

    $25,000

    NEW YORK, NY

    TO HONOR EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN PLAYWRITING

  • WG CLARK

    $20,000

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

    TO HONOR AN ARCHITECT WHO HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHITECTURE AS AN ART

  • MEGHAN O'GIEBLYN

    $20,000

    MADISON, WI

    TO HONOR A YOUNG, TALENTED WRITER.

  • SHANE MCCRAE

    $20,000

    NEW YORK, NY

    TO HONOR EXCEPTIONAL POET.

  • HERNAN DIAZ

    $20,000

    BROOKLYN, NY

    TO HONOR A MID-CAREER WRITER WHOSE WORK HAS DEMONSTRATED CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE.

  • LAUREN GROFF

    $20,000

    GAINESVILLE, FL

    TO RECOGNIZE AN AUTHOR FOR THE QUALITY OF THEIR PROSE.

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Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2023
Filed
10 September 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202422819349100922

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