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AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

EIN 36-2166947 CHICAGO, IL

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Revenue 2024
$40,436,015
Expenses 2024
$54,956,711

Program services were 77.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B030
Classification
2000
Street
225 N MICHIGAN AVE STE 1300

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 1300). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IS EMPOWERING AND ADVOCATING FOR LIBRARIES AND LIBRARY WORKERS TO ENSURE EQUITABLE ACCESS TO INFORMATION FOR ALL.

  • MUTUAL MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT PROGRAMS, GENERAL/OTHER: MEMBERSHIP SERVICES PROVIDED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEMBER PARTICIPATION. PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS TOTALED APPROXIMATELY 45,000 AS OF AUGUST 31, 2025.

    Expenses $14,388,850 · Grants $41,701

  • MUTUAL MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT PROGRAMS, GENERAL/OTHER: CONFERENCES ENABLE MEMBERS TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES, NEW PUBLICATIONS, AND TRENDS IN THE PROFESSION. THREE MAJOR CONFERENCES, SEVERAL NATIONAL FORUMS, AND VARIOUS INSTITUTES WERE HELD DURING THE YEAR.

    Expenses $5,772,029 · Grants $750 · Revenue $8,694,762

  • PUBLISHING: PUBLISHING OF TRADE JOURNALS AND BOOKS TO AID THE PROFESSION. PUBLISHED TRADE JOURNALS AND BOOKS ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PROFESSION DURING THE YEAR.

    Expenses $6,605,166 · Grants $20,383 · Revenue $10,235,511

  • MUTUAL MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT PROGRAMS, GENERAL/OTHER: GENERAL ACTIVITIES SUCH AS DIVERSITY, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ACCREDITATION, AND MONITORING LEGISLATION (19 OFFICES/DEPARTMENTS) AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS AND ACTIVITIES (19 ROUND TABLES).

    Expenses $15,858,908 · Grants $5,811,953 · Revenue $3,448,791

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Cindy Hohl

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Maria McCauley PhD

    PRESIDENT-ELECT (FROM 7/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sam Helmick

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Emily Drabinski

    PAST PRESIDENT (THRU 6/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Peter Hepburn

    TREASURER (THRU 6/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Larry Neal

    TREASURER (FROM 7/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Nicolas Buron

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kathy Carroll

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Stephanie Chase

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Peter Coyl

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sara Dallas

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amy S Lappin

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dr Corinthia Price

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Karen G Schneider

    DIRECTOR (THRU 6/30/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sophia Sotilleo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Steven Yates

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kc Boyd

    DIRECTOR (FROM 7/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Tatanisha Love

    DIRECTOR (FROM 7/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Janice Moore Newsum

    DIRECTOR (FROM 7/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ziba Perez

    DIRECTOR (FROM 7/1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Leslie Burger

    INTERIM EXEC. DIRECTOR (THRU 7/31/25)

    Total calculated
    $224,587
    From this org
    $224,587
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $224,487
    Bonus
    $100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $224,587

  • Dina Tsourdinis

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $233,905
    From this org
    $218,329
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,576
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $218,229
    Bonus
    $100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,117
    Nontaxable benefits
    $459
    Filer's total
    $233,905

  • Melissa Walling

    DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $238,812
    From this org
    $213,139
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,673
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $213,039
    Bonus
    $100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,165
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,508
    Filer's total
    $238,812

  • Tracie Hall

    FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • Rebecca Headrick

    CHIEF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $217,127
    From this org
    $206,311
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,816
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,211
    Bonus
    $100
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,377
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,439
    Filer's total
    $217,127

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $40,436,015
    Expenses
    $54,956,711
    Contributions
    $14,828,921
    Grants paid
    $5,874,787
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $54,115,379
    Expenses
    $56,217,260
    Contributions
    $25,325,850
    Grants paid
    $5,473,569
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $60,808,253
    Expenses
    $54,783,455
    Contributions
    $29,610,493
    Grants paid
    $6,564,080

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
    $61,228,263
    Expenses
    $49,521,801
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,268,634

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $46,373,776
    Expenses
    $42,201,219
    Assets (EOY)
    $94,861,095

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $50,981,527
    Expenses
    $49,683,926
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,135,815

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $49,989,920
    Expenses
    $54,042,879
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,320,482

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $53,965,518
    Expenses
    $54,587,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,801,580

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 2024 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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.