ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B700

Classification

3000

Street

219 S 6TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• MUSEUM/LIBRARY BUILDING: THE ATHENAEUM'S THREE LARGEST PROGRAM SERVICES, AS MEASURED BY EXPENSES IN FYE 2025 WERE 1) MAINTAINING AND OPERATING THE ATHENAEUM'S 1847 NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDING AND ITS CIRCULATING AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS; 2) PAYING THE SALARIES AND BENEFITS OF THE STAFF NEEDED TO PROVIDE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES TO MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC AND CARE FOR THE BUILDING AND COLLECTIONS; AND 3) PROVIDE PUBLIC RESEARCH SUPPORT. 1) THE ATHENAEUM BUILDING AND COLLECTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF AMERICA, AND THE USEFUL ARTS, DISSEMINATE USEFUL KNOWLEDGE FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT REQUIRES CARE AND UPKEEP. THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CONSIST OF MORE THAN 800,000 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, MAPS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF PARTICULAR VALUE TO ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, HISTORIANS, AND PRESERVATIONIST. THOUSANDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH ON TWO SITES MAINTAINED BY THE ATHENAEUM: PHILAGEOHISTORY.ORG AND PHILADELPHIABUILDINGS.ORG AND WERE ACCESSED BY MORE THAN 150,000 PEOPLE IN FYE 2025, WHILE STAFF SERVED MORE THAN 30 RESEARCH REQUESTS IN PERSON, PHONE, OR VIA EMAIL EACH MONTH. THE ATHENAEUM'S CIRCULATING COLLECTION OF BOOKS, EBOOKS, AUDIOBOOKS, AND PERIODICALS THAT ARE PART OF THE CIRCULATING BUILDING ARE NOT CAPITALIZED. 2) PERSONNEL COSTS MAKE UP A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET. OUR TEAM OF LIBRARIANS AND CURATOR CARE FOR OUR COLLECTIONS AND MAKE THEM AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS AND RESEARCHERS. IN FYE 2025, MORE THAN 18,000 ITEMS CIRCULATED. FRONT DESK, MEMBERSHIP, AND PROGRAMMING STAFF PROVIDED HOSPITALITY, TOURS, AND A ROBUST SCHEDULE OF MORE THAN 170 PROGRAMS AND EVENTS IN FYE 2025, ALMOST ALL OF WHICH WERE OPEN TO BOTH MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC. 3) PUBLIC RESEARCH SUPPORT. THE ATHENAEUM SUPPORTS A ROBUST PROGRAM OF FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS, AND PRIZES THROUGH THE CHARLES E. PETERSON FELLOWSHIP AND THE PETERSON PRIZES. EACH YEAR, THE CHARLES E. PETERSON FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE REVIEWS APPLICATIONS AND AWARDS FUNDING TO RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS WHOSE PROJECTS FOCUS ON AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, LANDSCAPE, OR ENGINEERING PRIOR TO 1860. THE FELLOWSHIP ALSO SUPPORTS 1-3 UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE INTERNS TO GAIN EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH OUR ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTIONS. THE CHARLES E. PETERSON PRIZES ARE JOINTLY OVERSEEN BY THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AND THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, AND AWARD CASH PRIZES TO TEAMS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR THE BEST ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF HISTORIC STRUCTURES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE'S HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY (HABS) PROGRAM.

  Expenses $1,423,179 · Grants $54,326

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,693,959

  Expenses

  $2,200,848

  Contributions

  $1,309,857

  Grants paid

  $54,326

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,297,850

  Expenses

  $1,902,538

  Contributions

  $1,092,340

  Grants paid

  $49,180

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,839,249

  Expenses

  $1,631,017

  Contributions

  $662,570

  Grants paid

  $29,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,474,110

  Expenses

  $1,439,475

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,748,541

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,703,346

  Expenses

  $1,375,611

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,678,492

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,765,671

  Expenses

  $1,384,029

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,042,367

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,298,094

  Expenses

  $1,469,602

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,652,967

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,749,503

  Expenses

  $1,326,412

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,212,499

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,541,051

  Expenses

  $1,384,564

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,245,901

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC

  $21,670

  2023 · OPERATIONS

• PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC

  $19,944

  2024 · OPERATIONS

• PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC

  $14,481

  2022 · OPERATIONS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $11,500

  2024 · EDUCATION

• PHILADELPHIA FOUNTAIN SOCIETY

  — no cash amount reported

  2022 · ASSIST MISSION

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