BOOK FAIRIES INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P20

Classification

1000

Street

220 MILLER PL

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

• DURING 2025, THE BOOK FAIRIES DISTRIBUTED APPROXIMATELY 747,000 BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN NEED THROUGHOUT LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY, AND INTERNATIONALLY THROUGH ITS VARIOUS PROGRAMS.BOOK FAIRIES DISTRIBUTES BOOKS THROUGH: MONTHLY BOOK FAIRS: ONCE A MONTH, WE OPEN OUR BOOK BANK TO EDUCATORS FROM SCHOOLS AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES. ATTENDEES SELECT AS MANY OF OUR CAREFULLY SORTED BOOKS AS THEY CAN DURING A 1-HOUR TIME SLOT. TYPICALLY, 12,000-20,000 BOOKS ARE DISTRIBUTED AT EACH EVENT, HELPING TO INCREASE ACCESS TO BOOKS FOR PEOPLE ACROSS LONG ISLAND AND NEW YORK CITY.COMMUNITY/SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS: ESTABLISHED IN 2021, THIS PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE TARGETED, MULTI-YEAR SUPPORT TO TEACHERS, SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES. THROUGH A COMBINATION OF STUDENT BOOK FAIRS, CUSTOMIZED DELIVERIES TO TEACHERS, AND GIVEAWAYS TO PROMOTE READING DURING SCHOOL BREAKS, WE HELP TO BUILD HOME, CLASSROOM, AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES AND FOSTER A CULTURE OF LITERACY.PUBLIC BOOKSHELVES: WE SUPPLY, MAINTAIN, AND REFRESH BOOK COLLECTIONS IN A VARIETY OF LOCATIONS, INCLUDING HEALTH CENTERS, PUBLIC PARKS, LIRR STATIONS, GROCERY STORES, PEDIATRIC DOCTORS' OFFICES, BEFORE- AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS, TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, SOUP KITCHENS, WOMEN'S SHELTERS, AND COMMUNITY CENTERS. WE ALSO DELIVER PAPERBACK BOOKS TO ORGANIZATIONS WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS IN THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM.SPECIAL BOOK DISTRIBUTIONS: THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE SUPPORT SPECIFIC REQUESTS FOR BOOK GIVEAWAYS, SUCH AS SUMMER READING INITIATIVES, COMMUNITY EVENTS, AND SCHOOL-WIDE DISTRIBUTIONS AT SITES THAT ARE NOT ALREADY PART OF OUR SCHOOL/COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM.GLOBAL BOOK DISTRIBUTIONS: WE PACK BOOKS IN FAIR TO AVERAGE CONDITION FOR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS TO SHIP OVERSEAS TO SUPPORT LITERACY NEEDS IN UNDER-RESOURCED COUNTRIES. OUR CURRENT PARTNER REACHES UNDER-RESOURCED SCHOOLS IN SOMALILAND, SIERRA LEONE, AND GHANA FACING HIGH DEMAND FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN ENGLISH.

  Expenses $706,468 · Revenue $14,320

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.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,211,192

  Expenses

  $1,022,697

  Contributions

  $1,138,081

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $931,555

  Expenses

  $813,125

  Contributions

  $861,504

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $821,571

  Expenses

  $700,777

  Contributions

  $756,190

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $651,401

  Expenses

  $585,431

  Contributions

  $612,409

  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

  $657,240

  Expenses

  $442,446

  Assets (EOY)

  $414,680

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $377,899

  Expenses

  $332,004

  Assets (EOY)

  $201,996

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $336,792

  Expenses

  $303,491

  Assets (EOY)

  $155,058

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $236,234

  Expenses

  $195,144

  Assets (EOY)

  $114,986

• 2017 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $190,126

  Expenses

  $137,941

  Assets (EOY)

  $73,896

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period

1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016

Principal officer

Amy Zaslansky

Mailing address

70 NORTH MAIN STFREEPORT NY 11520

Website

www.thebookfairies.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

• GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $25,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY OUTREACH & ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $25,000

  2023 · FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $22,480

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $20,450

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• TD SECURITIES UNDERWRITING HOPE FUND INC

  $10,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• IMAGINE AWARDS

  $7,555

  2023 · DONATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $7,100

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MANHASSET COMMUNITY FUND INC

  $6,000

  2022 · New Program Funding

• OPERATION CR INC

  $0

  2023 · IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $0

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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

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