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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY PRODUCTIONS INCORPORATED.

Totals

Total revenue
$78,931
Total expenses
$148,874
Contributions and grants received
$27,236
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$40,000
Investment income
$10,722
Other revenue
$973
Total assets, end of year
$310,832
Total liabilities, end of year
$12,814
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$298,018
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$113,688
Management and general expenses
$28,828
Fundraising expenses
$6,358
Program service expenses (Part III)
$113,688

Program services were 76.4% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $27,236

  • 2a · Program service revenue: CONTRACT FEES

    total $40,000 · related or exempt $40,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $16,575 · excluded $16,575

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $44,147

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

    securities $50,000

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$5,853

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$5,853 · excluded -$5,853

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS INCOME

    total $973 · related or exempt $973

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $973

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $12,589 · management and general $12,589

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $114,420 · program services $95,346 · management and general $12,716 · fundraising $6,358

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $304 · program services $16 · management and general $288

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $336 · program services $336

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $21,031 · program services $17,910 · management and general $3,121

  • 24a · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $114 · management and general $114

  • 24b · Other expenses: SUBSCRIPTIONS

    total $65 · program services $65

  • 24c · Other expenses: EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

    total $15 · program services $15

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $45,502 · end of year $18,875

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $17,816 · end of year $12,819

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $3,979 · end of year $4,681

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $295,048 · end of year $274,457

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $13,075 · end of year $12,814

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $331,360 · end of year $298,018

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $17,910 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO REVITALIZE INTEREST IN U.S. HISTORY THROUGH THE PRODUCTION OF A WIDE RANGE OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND COLLABORATION WITH SCHOLARS, MEDIA PRODUCERS AND EDUCATORS.

  • WHO BUILT AMERICA? AN OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE: DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE BASED ON OUR GROUNDBREAKING TWO VOLUME HISTORY TEXTBOOK WHO BUILT AMERICA? WORKING PEOPLE AND THE NATION'S HISTORY IN COMBINATION WITH OUR AWARD-WINNING HISTORY TEACHING WEBSITE HISTORY MATTERS: THE U.S. SURVEY COURSE ON THE WEB. THE OER WILL OFFER INSTRUCTORS AND STUDENTS A WHOLLY FREE, MULTI-LAYERED, AND CUSTOMIZABLE RESOURCE FOR U.S. HISTORY CLASSROOMS.MISSION US: DEVELOPMENT OF A SERIES OF AWARD-WINNING, FREE ONLINE HISTORY GAME FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL CLASSROOMS IN COLLABORATION WITH THIRTEEN/WNET. THE SERIES HAS BEEN USED BY OVER 3,000,000 STUDENTS AND 80,000 TEACHERS NATIONWIDE. IN FY23, MISSION 7, NO TURNING BACK: CIVIL RIGHTS IN 1960S MISSISSIPPI WAS RELEASED. ALSO, WORK BEGAN ON MISSION 8, SPIRIT OF A NATION. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING IDEAS AND STRATEGIES FOR CONTINUING FUNDING, TESTING, AND UPDATING OF THE SERIES.VISUAL CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH: IN JULY 2023 TWENTY-FIVE SCHOLARS PARTICIPATED IN THE AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY PROJECT/CENTER FOR MEDIA AND LEARNING'S SIXTH NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER INSTITUTE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH. NINETEEN NOTED HISTORIANS, ART HISTORIANS, AND ARCHIVISTS REPRESENTING THE RANGE OF CURRENT WORK IN THE FIELD MET WITH NEH SUMMER SCHOLARS. THESE VISITING LECTURERS LED PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS, AND HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS THAT ASSESSED HOW INFORMATION AND OPINION ABOUT THE WAR WERE RECORDED AND DISSEMINATED AND CONSIDERED WAYS VISUAL MEDIA EXPRESSED AND SHAPED AMERICANS' UNDERSTANDING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CONFLICT. NEH SUMMER SCHOLARS VISITED AND VIEWED THE HOLDINGS OF NATIONALLY RENOWN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.PAST/PRESENT: LINKING HISTORY TO CURRENT EVENTS: IN SPRING 2023, WE WORKED WITH SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TO ADD CONTENT TO SOCIAL HISTORY FOR EVERY CLASSROOM WHERE TEACHING RESOURCES CONSIDER CONTEMPORARY EVENTS WITHIN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT. WORKING WITH TEACHERS AND PEDAGOGY EXPERTS, WE DEVELOPED NEW COLLECTIONS OF RESOURCES AND CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES FOR SOCIAL HISTORY FOR EVERY CLASSROOM WHERE THEY ARE AVAILABLE FOR WIDESPREAD USE.PODCAST: CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF A PODCAST SERIES, MAKING QUEER HISTORY PUBLIC, THAT EXPLORES HOW THE WORK OF HISTORIANS, ACTIVISTS, EDUCATORS, AND ARCHIVISTS HAVE PRESERVED AND RECLAIMED THE TELLING OF LGBTQ+ HISTORY. ASHP/CML PRODUCED AND RELEASED THREE EPISODES OF THE SERIES.

    Expenses $113,688 · Revenue $40,973

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Carol Groneman

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephen Brier

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrea Ades Vasquez

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Donna Thompson Ray

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.8

  • Peter Mabli

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Pennee Bender

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joshua Brown

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Gerald Markowitz

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Ellen Noonan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Matthew K Gold

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Dominique Jean-Louis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Prithi Kanakamedala

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Anne Valk

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

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
8 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202423139349303807

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