Form 990 for tax year 2023
Filed by AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $223,971
- Total expenses
- $211,043
- Contributions and grants received
- $223,699
- Grants paid
- $72,998
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $272
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $79,927
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $79,927
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $153,970
- Management and general expenses
- $56,532
- Fundraising expenses
- $541
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $153,970
Program services were 73.0% 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.
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1b · Membership dues
$20,200
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$55,287
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$148,212
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$50
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3 · Investment income
total $272 · excluded $272
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $63,162 · program services $63,162
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $9,836 · program services $9,836
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $98,355 · program services $61,436 · management and general $36,919
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $3,515 · program services $2,636 · management and general $879
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $600 · management and general $600
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $4,413 · management and general $4,413
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $6,960 · program services $5,000 · management and general $1,960
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $2,544 · management and general $2,544
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14 · Information technology
total $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $4,898 · management and general $4,898
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17 · Travel
total $8,560 · program services $8,560
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $942 · program services $247 · management and general $695
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24a · Other expenses: Annual membership fee
total $3,000 · program services $3,000
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24b · Other expenses: Bank service charge
total $1,196 · management and general $1,196
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24c · Other expenses: Foreign currency gain/loss
total $1,071 · management and general $1,071
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24d · Other expenses: Telephone/internet
total $816 · program services $93 · management and general $723
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24e · All other expenses
total $1,175 · management and general $634 · fundraising $541
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $68,519 · end of year $79,927
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$6,539
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$6,539
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $1,520
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $66,999 · end of year $79,927
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) encourages and supports scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) across all disciplines of the Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. ARISC's mission is to promote and encourage American research in the region and to foster intellectual inquiry across boundaries within the South Caucasus as well as between the South Caucasus and its neighbors.
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In 2023-24, ARISC ran ten funding opportunities, awarding sixteen fellows to conduct research projects in the South Caucasus and three South Caucasus scholars to travel to the US to present their research at conferences. ARISC also awarded a teaching exchange fellowship to a pair of faculty to travel in the next year to complete their proposed pedagogical project at one anothers countries (one to the US another to the South Caucasus). ARISC co-sponsored a panel and a roundtable at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies annual convention. ARISC has received and responded to 200 requests for assistance by scholars with the logistics of their research. Forty-nine virtual and in-person lectures and events have been organized or co-organized in the South Caucasus. ARISC coordinated a call for a virtual publishing workshop to be held in the fall. ARISC has a Branch in Armenia and in Georgia and a representative in Azerbaijan. Our representatives abroad have collected information on language learning programs, archives and museums, and lists of scholars in the South Caucasus for those interested in building collaborative partnerships.
Expenses $153,970 · Grants $72,998
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Maureen Marshall
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Stephen Jones
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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See Statement 1 Attached
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Elizabeth Fagan
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lara Fabian
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 7 July 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2023v6.0
- Source object
- 202521889349300337
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