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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,326,224
Total expenses
$1,507,598
Contributions and grants received
$2,239,169
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$14,228
Investment income
$148,498
Other revenue
-$75,671
Total assets, end of year
$11,251,174
Total liabilities, end of year
$314,403
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$10,936,771
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$770,869
Management and general expenses
$489,673
Fundraising expenses
$247,056
Program service expenses (Part III)
$770,869

Program services were 51.1% 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.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $27,665

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $335,318

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,876,186

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $335,767

  • 2a · Program service revenue: ADMISSION & EXHIBITIONS

    total $14,228 · related or exempt $14,228

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $148,498 · excluded $148,498

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $8,750

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

    $335,318

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $84,250

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$75,500

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $3,452

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $5,357

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total -$1,905 · related or exempt -$1,905

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $1,734 · related or exempt $1,734

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $1,734

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $362,834 · program services $201,177 · management and general $141,898 · fundraising $19,759

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $372,402 · program services $187,638 · management and general $180,321 · fundraising $4,443

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $21,055 · program services $10,904 · management and general $9,555 · fundraising $596

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $41,710 · program services $12,999 · management and general $26,604 · fundraising $2,107

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $67,658 · program services $34,967 · management and general $30,604 · fundraising $2,087

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $26,500 · management and general $26,500

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $91,472 · program services $64,624 · management and general $26,532 · fundraising $316

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $43,096 · program services $24,224 · management and general $7,135 · fundraising $11,737

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $18,531 · program services $14,815 · management and general $2,944 · fundraising $772

  • 20 · Interest

    total $924 · management and general $924

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $90,046 · program services $83,580 · management and general $1,799 · fundraising $4,667

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $61,598 · program services $49,076 · management and general $12,522

  • 24a · Other expenses: OUTREACH

    total $213,987 · program services $13,427 · management and general $173 · fundraising $200,387

  • 24b · Other expenses: BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

    total $56,467 · program services $55,422 · management and general $1,045

  • 24c · Other expenses: ADMINISTRATION FEES

    total $22,052 · program services $4,431 · management and general $17,612 · fundraising $9

  • 24d · Other expenses: MEALS & ENTERTAINMENT

    total $16,171 · program services $12,490 · management and general $3,505 · fundraising $176

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,095 · program services $1,095

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $115,346 · end of year $183,999

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $3,240,459 · end of year $3,828,334

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $239,301 · end of year $220,819

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $10,299 · end of year $11,361

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $48,008 · end of year $46,673

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

    $8,637,835

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

    $1,702,986

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $6,731,184 · end of year $6,934,849

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $27,989 · end of year $22,184

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,949 · end of year $2,955

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $244,859 · end of year $277,083

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $28,850 · end of year $28,850

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $24,681 · end of year $8,470

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,721,680 · end of year $4,746,464

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,396,465 · end of year $6,190,307

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SHAKER MUSEUM ELEVATES SHAKER MATERIAL CULTURE TO ANIMATE SHAKER VALUES AND BELIEFS AND INSPIRE INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES TO DEEPEN BONDS AND SEEK MEANINGFUL APPROACHES TO SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SPIRITUAL ISSUES.

  • COLLECTIONS CARE AND STEWARDSHIP - WITH MORE THAN 18,000 OBJECTS, SHAKER MUSEUM STEWARDS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF SHAKER MATERIAL CULTURE AND ARCHIVES. THE MUSEUM'S EXTENSIVE COLLECTION AND ARCHIVE OF SHAKER MANUSCRIPTS, IMPRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, EPHEMERA, AND SECONDARY SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY RESEARCH MATERIALS ATTRACT VISITORS AND RESEARCHERS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND ABROAD. THE MUSEUM ENCOURAGES AND SUPPORTS STUDY AND RESEARCH IN THE COLLECTION, AS WELL AS ITS INTERPRETATION, THROUGH EXHIBITIONS ORGANIZED BY THE MUSEUM AND IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND THROUGH LOANS TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS. MUSEUM STAFF ALSO RESPOND TO INQUIRIES FROM RESEARCHERS AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT SHAKER HISTORY AND OBJECT PROVENANCE. SHAKER MUSEUM'S COLLECTION IS DISPLAYED ON ITS WEBSITE, SHAKERMUSEUM.US, WITH BOTH INFORMATION AND IMAGES IN AN ONLINE DATABASE THAT IS FREE AND FULLY PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE.

    Expenses $319,788

  • EXHIBITIONS, TOURS, AND WORKSHOPS - SHAKER MUSEUM IS IN THE PROCESS OF RENOVATING AND BUILDING AN EXPANSIVE NEW FACILITY DESIGNED BY SELDORF ARCHITECTS. THE PHYSICAL BUILDING WILL EMBODY SHAKER VALUES OF INCLUSION, INNOVATION, AND EQUALITY TO CREATE A MUSEUM THAT SHOWCASES SHAKER MUSEUM'S COLLECTION, HOSTS EXHIBITIONS, TELLS THE SHAKER STORY, AND IS RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. WHILE THE MUSEUM IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, THE COLLECTIONS ARE ACCESSIBLE ONLINE, THROUGH GUIDED TOURS OF THE STORAGE AREA, AND IN EXHIBITIONS AT TEMPORARY "POP-UP" LOCATIONS. PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS ALSO CONNECT SHAKER MUSEUM WITH THE PUBLIC.

    Expenses $322,453 · Revenue $14,228

  • HISTORICAL SITE PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION - SHAKER MUSEUM STEWARDS THE NORTH FAMILY HISTORIC SITE AT MOUNT LEBANON. FOUNDED IN 1787, MOUNT LEBANON WAS THE FIRST OFFICIAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZED BY THE SHAKERS AND WAS THE LEADER IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPIRITUAL MATTERS FOR ALL THE SHAKER COMMUNITIES THAT EMERGED THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND AND SOUTH AND WEST INTO KENTUCKY, OHIO, AND FLORIDA. ITS COMMUNITY PLANNING, ARCHITECTURE, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENDEAVORS, AS WELL AS ITS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, BECAME MODELS FOR THE OTHER SHAKER VILLAGES. AT ITS PEAK IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY, MOUNT LEBANON SPANNED OVER 6,000 ACRES AND AROUND 600 PEOPLE LIVED AND WORKED IN HUNDREDS OF BUILDINGS. WITHIN THIS CENTRAL COMMUNITY THE SHAKERS DEVELOPED THEIR PROGRESSIVE IDEAS ON GENDER EQUALITY, RACIAL EQUALITY, PACIFISM, COMMUNAL PROPERTY, THE VALUE OF LABOR, AND SUSTAINABILITY. THEY ALSO ESTABLISHED THE NOW FAMOUS SHAKER AESTHETIC OF SIMPLICITY, EXPRESSED IN THEIR OBJECTS, FURNITURE, BUILDINGS, AND VILLAGE PLANNING. TODAY VISITORS TO THE NORTH FAMILY ENCOUNTER 10 ORIGINAL SHAKER BUILDINGS ON 91 ACRES. VISITORS ARE WELCOME YEAR-ROUND, WEATHER PERMITTING, TO STROLL THE GROUNDS, HIKE THE NORTH PASTURE TRAIL, OR HAVE A PICNIC IN THE MEADOW.

    Expenses $128,628

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Lacy Schutz

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $209,680
    From this org
    $197,593
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,087
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $197,593
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,901
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,186
    Filer's total
    $209,680
  • Lisa Malone Jackson

    DEPUTY EXECU

    Total calculated
    $182,132
    From this org
    $165,241
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,891
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,241
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $7,407
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,484
    Filer's total
    $182,132
  • Paul Cassidy

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • John Schobel

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • John Frishkopf

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Jeremy Stynes

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Jeff Bailey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ben Bischoff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kimberly Driesson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Carl R Fischer IV

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rae Gilson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • James Kocis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kenneth Kramer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Joseph Kusnick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Lael Locke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Matthew Malin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Phil Meeks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rachel Robbins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Karen Suen-Cooper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • JD Weinberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Kathleen Weiser

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Stephen G Williams Sr

    FOUNDING DIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment

Answered no

  • 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

The filer's explanations (Part III)

SCHEDULE J, PAGE 1, PART I, LINE 4
LACY SCHUTZ 90,000 0 0

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
10 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.0
Source object
202523219349309177

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