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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$51,945
Total expenses
$54,759
Contributions and grants received
$0
Grants paid
$54,759
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$51,945
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,305,070
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,305,070
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 $26,194 · excluded $26,194

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $181,683

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

    securities $155,932

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $25,751

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $25,751 · excluded $25,751

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 $1,190,664 · end of year $1,305,070

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $799,901 · end of year $877,017

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $390,763 · end of year $428,053

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE O.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 2024 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

  • F 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
    $393,408
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $362,733
    Other
    $30,675
    Hours/week
    2 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $362,733 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,160 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $1,515 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $393,408 related

  • Christopher J Boudrot

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $220,277
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $180,811
    Other
    $39,466
    Hours/week
    2 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $180,811 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $15,045 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,421 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $220,277 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

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 3
ALL COMPENSATION IS PAID BY RELATED ORGANIZATION PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM. EACH YEAR, THE TRUSTEES OF PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM EVALUATE THE COMPENSATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OBJECTIVELY, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT COMPENSATION PAID BY SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS FOR FUNCTIONALLY COMPARABLE POSITIONS.

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
2024
Filed
11 August 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202612239349302251

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