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ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC

EIN 13-3171867 NEW YORK, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2023
$14,405,969
Expenses 2023
$13,798,821

Program services were 90.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A500
Classification
1000
Street
9TH FLOOR

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 · 2023

Mission

TO PROMOTE ROLL & ROLL MUSIC AS A CULTURAL ASPECT OF MODERN LIFE AND SOCIETY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND ARTIFACTS RELATED TO THE ROCK & ROLL MUSIC INDUSTRY AS WELL AS SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISH A HALL OF FAME WHICH HAS DIRECTLY PROMOTED ROCK & ROLL AND ITS CULTURAL ASPECTBY ANNUAL INDUCTIONS AND INDUSTRY ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNITIONS.

  • TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, RECORDS AND ARTIFACTS RELATED TO THE ROLL & ROLL MUSIC INDUSTRY AS WELL AS SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISH A HALL OF FAME WHICH HAS DIRECTLY PROMOTED ROCK & ROLL AND ITS CULTURAL ASPECCT BY ANNAUL INDUCTIONS AND INDUSTRY ACHIEVEMENT RECOGNITIONS.

    Expenses $12,537,561 · Revenue $13,693,274

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Joel Peresman

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $590,385
    From this org
    $590,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $590,385
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $590,385
  • John Sykes

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Allen Grubman

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jon Landau

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michele Anthony

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Bonderman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lyor Cohen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Connor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Suzan Evans Hochberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jody Gerson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Craig Kallman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pam Kaufman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rob Light

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Judy McGrath

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ronald O Perelman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bob Pittman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jon Platt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Rapino

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Barry Rosenstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Curtis Schenker

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rob Stringer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alec Wightman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Pharrell Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dirk Ziff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey Azoff

    DIRECTOR

    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. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,405,969
    Expenses
    $13,798,821
    Contributions
    $63,566
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $13,002,570
    Expenses
    $10,273,865
    Contributions
    $61,270
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,963,865
    Expenses
    $8,702,841
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,882,769
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,295,590
    Expenses
    $3,214,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,036,256
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $716,974
    Expenses
    $1,117,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,436,320
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,406,117
    Expenses
    $1,433,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,929,366
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,668,979
    Expenses
    $1,407,389
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,496,329
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,668,979
    Expenses
    $1,407,389
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,496,329
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,113,190
    Expenses
    $5,166,742
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,625,714
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,399,754
    Expenses
    $1,003,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,167,023
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,638,192
    Expenses
    $1,720,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,389,400
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,260,059
    Expenses
    $6,720,996
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,073,686

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

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 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.