AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN

EIN 52-1726273 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024: $10,626,259
Expenses 2024: $10,213,175

Program services were 54.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: Q113
Classification: 1000
Street: 14 E 60TH ST STE 1104

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

Mission

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN IS AN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED WORKS IN THE ARTS, HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PUBLIC POLICY. THE ACADEMY'S GOALS INCLUDE BUILDING DEEPER TIES IN THESE AREAS BETWEEN GERMANY AND THE U.S.A.

THE ACADEMY FOSTERS TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGE AND RELATIONSHIPS AMONG LEADING SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS BY SPONSORING A RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR ADVANCED INDEPENDENT WORK IN THE ARTS, HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, JOURNALISM AND PUBLIC POLICY; THROUGH PUBLIC PROGRAMMING, CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS THAT PROMOTE THE WORK OF FELLOWS AND GERMAN-AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE; AND THROUGH A SHORT-TERM DISTINGUISHED VISITOR PROGRAM, WHICH BRINGS OUTSTANDING AMERICANS FROM A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES TO GERMANY FOR A ROBUST EXCHANGE OF VIEWS.THE RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE FORUM IS AN ONGOING SERIES OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS CONVENED BY THE ACADEMY AND ITS RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE FELLOWS.

Expenses $5,570,110 · Grants $440,600

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

SANDRA E PETERSON

CHAIRMAN

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
STEFAN VON HOLTZBRINCK

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
HANS-MICHAEL GIESEN

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LEAH JOY ZELL

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
STEFAN ASENKERSCHBAUMER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KLAUS BIESENBACH

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MANFRED BISCHOFF

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LEON BOTSTEIN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARTIN BRAND

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
GAHL HODGES BURT

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MATHIAS DOEPFNER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
FLORIAN HENCKEL V DONNERSMARCK

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BENNO DORER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARINA KELLEN FRENCH

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JEFFREY MARK GOLDBERG

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ANDREW S GUNDLACH

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
AMY GUTMANN FROM FALL 2024

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EMILY HABER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
TIMOTHEUS HOETTGES

BOARD MEMBER (TO FALL 2024)

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOHANNES HUTH

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DIRK IPPEN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
WOLFGANG ISCHINGER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOE KAESER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MICHAEL KELLEN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MICHAEL KLEIN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$10,626,259

Expenses

$10,213,175

Contributions

$6,533,368

Grants paid

$440,600
2023

Revenue

$7,889,858

Expenses

$9,460,116

Contributions

$5,741,249

Grants paid

$426,151
2022

Revenue

$11,127,619

Expenses

$8,483,185

Contributions

$7,129,802

Grants paid

$397,506

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$10,626,259	$10,213,175	$6,533,368	$440,600
2023	$7,889,858	$9,460,116	$5,741,249	$426,151
2022	$11,127,619	$8,483,185	$7,129,802	$397,506

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

2024 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
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

$8,197,454

Expenses

$8,170,433

Assets (EOY)

$62,667,658
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$12,729,406

Expenses

$7,414,668

Assets (EOY)

$65,074,118
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$7,015,975

Expenses

$6,680,949

Assets (EOY)

$54,927,109
2018 · 990

Revenue

$10,064,023

Expenses

$7,784,432

Assets (EOY)

$56,753,073
2017 · 990

Revenue

$9,953,684

Expenses

$7,189,374

Assets (EOY)

$58,584,968

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$8,197,454	$8,170,433	$62,667,658
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$12,729,406	$7,414,668	$65,074,118
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$7,015,975	$6,680,949	$54,927,109
2018	990	$10,064,023	$7,784,432	$56,753,073
2017	990	$9,953,684	$7,189,374	$58,584,968

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

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

$182,000

2024 INTERNATIONAL
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$125,250

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION

$100,000

2022 2 GRANT(S) FOR VARYING PURPOSES
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$92,975

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

$60,000

2023 INTERNATIONAL
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$55,500

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$55,000

2023 INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$50,000

2023 CULTURE & ARTS
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

$50,000

2022 INTERNATIONAL
JEWISHCOLORADO

$34,550

2023 General Operating Support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

STIFTUNG FUER DIE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN

N/A · SUPPORTING THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN GMBH · GM · controlled entity

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN GMBH

PROGRAM SERVICE · GM · income $1,923,932 · assets $4,305,642

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.