YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

X300

Classification

2800

Street

15 W 16TH 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).

Other organizations at this address

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

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.

• AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION

  EIN 23-7338689

• CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC

  EIN 13-3863344

• LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC

  EIN 13-5659965

Mission and programs · 2024

• LIBRARY & ARCHIVES (COLLECTIONS OF JUDAICA) - THE YIVO LIBRARY HOLDS NUMEROUS BOOKS AND PERIODICALS IN TWELVE LANGUAGES. THIS INCLUDES THE UNIQUE VILNA COLLECTION WITH RABBINICAL WORKS FROM AS EARLY AS THE 16TH CENTURY. THE LIBRARY HOLDINGS ARE PARTICULARLY STRONG IN DOCUMENTATION OF JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION IN EASTERN EUROPE; THE HOLOCAUST PERIOD; THE EXPERIENCE OF IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES; ANTI-SEMITISM; AND THE CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF ASHKENAZIC JEWISH CULTURE TODAY.

  Expenses $1,531,486 · Grants $5,000 · Revenue $106,134

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $1,144,380 · Grants $46,300 · Revenue $477,799

• THE BUND ARCHIVES - THE BUND ARCHIVES PROJECT IS A MULTI-YEAR PROJECT TO CONSERVE, PROCESS, AND DIGITIZE THE 3.5 MILLION PAGES OF JEWISH LABOR AND POLITICAL ARCHIVES THAT WERE DONATED TO YIVO BY THE BUND ARCHIVES IN 1992. THESE MATERIALS ARE FROM EASTERN EUROPE AND AMERICA AND COVER MAJOR POLITICAL, LABOR, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. AFTER THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE, THESE MATERIALS WILL BE ACCESSIBLE ONLINE FREE-OF-CHARGE. YIVO ESSENTIALLY BEGAN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT IN 2022.

  Expenses $1,192,583

• DIGITAL INITIATIVES - INCLUDES THE FUNCTIONS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP WORK PROCESSES TO ENSURE THE FUNCTIONALITY, FLEXIBILITY, AND SUSTAINABILITY OF ALL YIVO WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA. PROJECTS INCLUDE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE ONLINE YIVO ENCYCLOPEDIA AND ONLINE GUIDE TO THE YIVO ARCHIVES AS WELL AS A COMPREHENSIVE REDESIGN OF THE YIVO.ORG WEBSITE.

  Expenses $95,729

• PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS - SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1925, IN PARALLEL WITH ITS RESEARCH, ARCHIVAL, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORK, THE YIVO INSTITUTE HAS CARRIED OUT AN ACTIVE PROGRAM OF SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION. IN YIVO'S BOOKS, JOURNALS, CATALOGS, NEWSLETTERS, AND BROCHURES, EVERY ASPECT OF THE FIELD OF YIDDISH AND EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER FIELDS OF MODERN JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP, HAS BEEN REPRESENTED: LINGUISTICS, CULTURE AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, FOLKLORE AND ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIAL STUDIES, THEATER HISTORY AND MUSIC, LITERARY HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.

  Expenses $569,724

• ONLINE MUSEUM - THE YIVO BRUCE AND FRANCESCA CERNIA SLOVIN ONLINE MUSEUM PROJECT PROVIDES ACCESS WORLDWIDE TO YIVO'S ARCHIVAL AND LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, WHICH ARE MEANINGFUL AND IMPORTANT ARCHIVAL TREASURES INSTRUMENTAL IN PRESERVING THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. THE MUSEUM CONTAINS EXTENSIVE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND PAGES OFB OOKS THAT HAVE BEENDIGITIZED AS PART OF THE EDWARD BLANK YIVO VILNA COLLECTIONS PROJECT TO CREATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE GALLERIES THAT REFLECT THE SPECTRUM OF JEWISH LIFE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA FROM MUSIC, LITERATURE, AND THEATER TO MERCANTILE GUILDS, MUNICIPAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND RABBINIC COURTS; FROM TRADITIONAL WAYS OF LIFE AND THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN TO ZIONISM AND REVOLUTION. THE ONLINE MUSEUM SERVES AS A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM FOR BOTH JEWS AND NON-JEWS, AND ALSO SERVES AS A KEY RESOURCE FOR EUROPEANS WHO SEEK TO UNDERSTAND THEIR OWN COUNTRIES' MULTICULTURAL HISTORIES. THIS PROJECT BEGAN IN THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 WITH THE SUPPORT OF A MAJOR DONOR AND THE ONLINE MUSEUM WAS LAUNCHED AUGUST 2020.

  Expenses $283,646

• LEARNING AND MEDIA CENTER

  Expenses $236,225

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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. 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

  $13,744,682

  Expenses

  $7,065,266

  Contributions

  $9,506,288

  Grants paid

  $51,300

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,978,238

  Expenses

  $6,591,907

  Contributions

  $4,510,201

  Grants paid

  $54,389

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,956,520

  Expenses

  $5,758,535

  Contributions

  $7,940,577

  Grants paid

  $87,206

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

  $6,355,395

  Expenses

  $4,974,112

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,301,993

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,578,436

  Expenses

  $5,324,677

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,423,029

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,934,959

  Expenses

  $5,676,519

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,045,647

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,640,179

  Expenses

  $5,158,668

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,304,388

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,334,839

  Expenses

  $4,795,588

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,515,330

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,109,236

  Expenses

  $4,816,238

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,878,384

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,297,858

  Expenses

  $3,915,035

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,081,172

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,678,613

  Expenses

  $3,177,840

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,332,952

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,032,235

  Expenses

  $3,282,965

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,348,568

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $3,393,216

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,914,605

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

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $1,427,840

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $1,337,211

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $327,000

  2023 · RELIGION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $309,329

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $207,527

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $198,731

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $177,316

  2024 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $111,002

  2022 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $100,734

  2023 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• JEWISH COMMUNITY FDN OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA

  $78,004

  2022 · general support

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.

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