EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A80

Classification

2000

Street

1105 GREENBRIER 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

• Arts and Culture: East Side Freedom Library (ESFL) leverages the arts to promote solidarity, justice, and equity, prioritizing artist activists to shift narratives and empower community storytelling. Through diverse programming in poetry, visual art, theater, dance, music, and storytelling, ESFL amplifies marginalized voices and preserves histories. Programs such as "Music Between the Stacks," literary events, cinema, theater, workshops, and art-making opportunities highlight the intersection of arts, humanities, and storytelling, fostering community expression and cultural knowledge.

  Expenses $154,716 · Revenue $104,175

• Labor and Equity: ESFL's Labor and Equity programs unite community members, organizations, and allies to address housing inequity, environmental injustice, and social harms in St. Paul. Key initiatives include: Labor: The ESFL Labor Advisory Group fosters collaboration with the labor movement, supporting local labor issues, education, and engagement through panel discussions, the Annual Labor Solidarity Picnic, and Solidarity Awards. East Side Housing Justice: Advocates for housing equity via coalition work, public education, and advocacy. East Side Environmental Justice Group: Focuses on improving environmental health through advocacy on clean air, water, food, and green jobs. East Side Unified: A journal highlighting community developments, organizing efforts, and social justice work, connecting past and present.

  Expenses $71,366 · Revenue $56,021

• Housing Justice: The Housing Justice Program advances housing equity through: Community-Led Exhibits: Documenting housing activism history in St. Paul to inspire future advocacy. Educational Workshops: Exploring housing justice issues through racial equity and related struggles. Collaborative Spaces: Hosting the Housing Justice Coalition to support advocacy, grassroots organizing, and community education. Equitable Development: Promoting policies that prevent displacement and reduce disparities. Cooperatives and Community Ownership: Supporting neighborhood self-determination through the East Side Community Investment Cooperative.

  Expenses $97,228 · Revenue $68,750

• Teaching and Learning: ESFL combines education with community scholarship, offering access to its extensive collections, artifacts, and programs. Through mentoring for National History Day, classroom visits, tours, special presentations, and author events, ESFL supports students, educators, and researchers. It manages over 35,000 books and materials and provides a digital repository for research.

  Expenses $70,971 · Revenue $40,542

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.

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

  $578,936

  Expenses

  $571,465

  Contributions

  $544,536

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $578,430

  Expenses

  $791,869

  Contributions

  $535,109

  Grants paid

  $32,484

• 2022

  Revenue

  $526,523

  Expenses

  $814,038

  Contributions

  $491,352

  Grants paid

  $2,287

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

  $743,529

  Expenses

  $553,417

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,831,945

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $554,869

  Expenses

  $310,967

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,682,191

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $405,785

  Expenses

  $251,510

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,444,039

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $316,776

  Expenses

  $234,990

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,300,790

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.

Grants made

• Neo Muralismos De Mexico

  $32,484

  2023 · Creative Support from the Minnesota State Arts Board pass through to grantee

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  $69,787

  2024 · Legacy Grant for the East Side Freedom Library creating a community digital repository highlighting the overlooked stories of Southeast Asian women in Minnesota

• SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2022 · MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES

• PROPEL NONPROFITS

  $45,626

  2024 · NONPROFIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM

• NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT

  $34,500

  2022 · GRANTS TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT LOCAL AND NATIONAL PROGRAMS

• PROPEL NONPROFITS

  $20,000

  2022 · SEEDING CULTURAL TREASURERS

• PROPEL NONPROFITS

  $19,374

  2023 · NONPROFIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM

• MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  $16,004

  2022 · Partnership Grant for African American Artist Archive

• MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  $10,000

  2023 · Legacy Grant for Housing Justice Archival Exhibit Research

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $6,635

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $6,500

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

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