- Revenue 2025
- $4,662,953
- Expenses 2025
- $4,631,823
Program services were 80.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- G41Z
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- 110 EAST 30TH STREET
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 · 2025
Mission
JBI LIBRARY'S MISSION IS TO ENSURE THAT ANYONE WHO IS BLIND, HAS LOW VISION OR OTHER PRINT DISABILITY CAN FULLY PARTICIPATE IN AND FEEL CONNECTED TO ALL ASPECTS OF JEWISH LIFE, FROM CULTURE, EDUCATION, AND COMMUNITY TO RELIGIOUS PRACTICE.
Activities or mission (Part I)
JBI PROVIDES BRAILLE, AUDIO & LARGE PRINT MATERIALS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND, HAVE LOW VISION OR A PRINT DISABILITY.
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LIBRARIES: THE JBI LIBRARY INCLUDES A BROAD SPECTRUM OF JEWISH-INTEREST BOOKS IN AUDIO, LARGE PRINT AND BRAILLE, ALL PRODUCED IN-HOUSE AND DISTRIBUTED FREE OF CHARGE DIRECTLY TO OUR PATRONS DOORSTEPS; AFTER ENJOYING THE MATERIALS, PATRONS RETURN THEM, POSTAGE FREE. WE OFFER MORE THAN 13,000 CIRCULATING AUDIOBOOKS AND SEVERAL THOUSAND BRAILLE TITLES AND LARGE PRINT MATERIALS ENCOMPASSING FICTION, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, SHORT STORIES, PERIDICALS, HUMOR, LITURGICAL TEXTS, POETRY, JEWISH STUDIES, MEMOIRS, COOKBOOKS AND MORE, WITH NEW TITLES ADDED REGULARLY.
Expenses $2,156,488 · Revenue $10,917
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OUTREACH: JBI ACTIVELY REACHES OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO PROMOTE THE WIDEST USE OF ITS FREE AUDIO, LARGE PRINT AND BRAILLE LIBRARY. THIS IS TRUE PARTICULARLY FOR THE GROWING NUMBER OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED SENIORS, INCLUDING IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS, MANY OF WHICH LIVE A "SHUT IN" EXISTENCE. TO REACH THIS SENIOR POPULATION, AS WELL AS THEIR CAREGIVERS, ADULT CHILDREN AND FRIENDS, JBI MAKES PRESENTATIONS, ADVERTISES IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS, ENCOURAGES LOCAL PRESS COVERAGE AND FORGES COMMUNICATION WITH RELEVANT INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES. WE ALSO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS, CHILDREN, PRISONERS AND VETERANS.
Expenses $1,115,598
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JBI'S EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS PROVIDE ACCESSIBLE LITERARY, CULTURAL, AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE BLIND, HAVE LOW VISION, OR ARE OTHERWISE PRINT DISABLED. THROUGH A WIDE RANGE OF OFFERINGSINCLUDING AUTHOR TALKS, LECTURES, BOOK CLUBS, AND CULTURAL PROGRAMSJBI FOSTERS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, LIFELONG LEARNING, AND MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION IN JEWISH AND GENERAL CULTURAL LIFE. ALL PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED WITH ACCESSIBILITY AT THE FOREFRONT, UTILIZING FORMATS SUCH AS LIVE AUDIO, TELEPHONE-BASED PARTICIPATION, AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS TO ENSURE INCLUSIVE ACCESS REGARDLESS OF GEOGRAPHIC OR TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIERS. THESE PROGRAMS SERVE A DIVERSE AND OFTEN ISOLATED POPULATION, PROMOTING INTELLECTUAL ENRICHMENT, CULTURAL CONNECTION, AND SOCIAL INCLUSION.
Expenses $312,595 · Grants $181,288
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PERIODICALS: JBI OFFERS A VARIETY OF JBI PERIODICALS IN AUDIO AND BRAILLE FORMAT WHICH ARE UNAVAILABLE OTHERWISE TO THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED. THESE INCLUDE HADASSAH AND LILITH MAGAZINE, JBI VOICES-A COMPILATION OF ARTICLES FROM A GLOBAL SELECTION OF NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS, AND ALSO INCLUDE JBI'S CULTURAL SERIES.
Expenses $49,217
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ISRAELI ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: JBI PROVIDED SUPPORT FOR THE CENTRAL LIBRARY FOR THE BLIND IN ISRAEL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR NEW RECORDING STUDIO.
Expenses $41,212
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OTHER PROGRAMS
Expenses $34,940
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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ALIZA SPERLING
TRUSTEE (OUTGOING)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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ALLAN LOWY
TRUSTEE (OUTGOING)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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ANDREA BROWN
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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BARBARA B FRIEDMAN
HON. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD (OUTGOING)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
BARBARA G SAIDEL
CO-CHAIR OF THE BOARD
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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CAREN KELLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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CHARLOTTE WIESENBERG
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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DR ELLIE HENKIND KATZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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ELLEN DAVID
ASSISTANT TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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FLORENCE MILCH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
FRANCES BRANDT
HONORARY TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
GABRIELLE COHN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
JAY FIALKOFF
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
MARK J ALTSCHULER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
MYRON KAPLAN
VICE CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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NANCY I KLEIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
RABBI LINDA GOODMAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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RABBI MORDECHAI RACKOVER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
SCOTT KESSLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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STEVE FADEM
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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STEVE GOMER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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STEVEN P POLIVY
HON. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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STEVEN SKLAR
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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STEWART PROST
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
SUSAN GOLD
CO-CHAIR OF THE BOARD
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $4,662,953
- Expenses
- $4,631,823
- Contributions
- $3,307,092
- Grants paid
- $181,288
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2024
- Revenue
- $3,327,268
- Expenses
- $4,675,673
- Contributions
- $2,076,856
- Grants paid
- $353,570
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,989,204
- Expenses
- $3,860,770
- Contributions
- $2,277,425
- Grants paid
- $22,750
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2022
- Revenue
- $4,247,437
- Expenses
- $3,641,405
- Contributions
- $3,931,486
- Grants paid
- $257,488
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,977,688
- Expenses
- $3,734,217
- Assets (EOY)
- $26,324,221
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,230,233
- Expenses
- $3,330,722
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,677,529
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,668,055
- Expenses
- $3,529,408
- Assets (EOY)
- $25,021,654
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,797,766
- Expenses
- $3,306,372
- Assets (EOY)
- $23,356,275
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,187,211
- Expenses
- $3,545,267
- Assets (EOY)
- $23,473,449
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,508,047
- Expenses
- $3,480,799
- Assets (EOY)
- $19,162,593
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,967,858
- Expenses
- $3,543,086
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,171,898
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,146,335
- Expenses
- $3,464,958
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,453,174
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,461,697
- Expenses
- $3,319,879
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,728,736
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $3,244,904
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,185,652
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
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$200,000
2023 FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$46,920
2025 SUPPORT ACCESSIBLE PRODUCTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
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$27,360
2024 HEALTH
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$16,417
2024 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
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$13,342
2023 IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$12,153
2024 HEALTH
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2024 MODERNIZE RECORDING STUDIO FOR HIGHER-QUALITY AUDIO FOR PRINT-DISABLED BLIND AND LOW VISION USERS
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.