- Revenue 2024
- $7,541,977
- Expenses 2024
- $5,757,405
Program services were 63.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B70
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 700 BOYLSTON 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
Mission
THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND PROVIDES FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY (BPL), ENSURING THAT IT REMAINS VIABLE, ENGAGING, ACCESSIBLE, AND FREE TO ALL. THE LIBRARY FUND FULFILLS THIS MISSION BY WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DONORS AND OTHER FUNDERS.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND PROVIDES FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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FUNDS WERE PROVIDED TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR VARIOUS PROGRAM GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE MISSION OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Expenses $3,646,334 · Grants $3,646,334
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.
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JEFFREY B HAWKINS
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
HANNAH GROVE
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
LOUIS MAIURI
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
TAYLOR BRENNAN
PRESIDENT, EMERGING LEADERS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
LEWIS BURLEIGH
FOUNDING DIRECTOR EMERITUS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
GRACE FEY
FOUNDING DIRECTOR EMERITUS
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
CLIFF CAMMOCK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
BARRY CANTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
CYNTHIA CLARK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
ADRIENNE ZAK HUNT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
DERRICK JOHNS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
MICHAEL KEATING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
DAVID LEONARD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
MERRANDA LOGAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
RAYMOND LIU
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1 + 0.1 related
-
LEO LIU
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
AMELIA MCCARTHY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
DOUGLAS CARNEY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
-
PAULA SAKEY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $334,002
- From this org
- $284,315
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $49,687
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $259,315
- Bonus
- $25,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $11,938
- Nontaxable benefits
- $37,749
- Filer's total
- $334,002
-
CAROL ESTES-SCHWARTZ
DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY AND LEGACY GIVING
- Total calculated
- $213,964
- From this org
- $150,911
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $63,053
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $145,911
- Bonus
- $5,000
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $7,253
- Nontaxable benefits
- $55,800
- Filer's total
- $213,964
-
SARAH DOW
DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT SERVICES
- Total calculated
- $123,737
- From this org
- $112,654
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,083
- Hours/week
- 40
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
- $7,541,977
- Expenses
- $5,757,405
- Contributions
- $6,982,353
- Grants paid
- $3,646,334
-
2023
- Revenue
- $5,623,283
- Expenses
- $4,997,008
- Contributions
- $5,362,152
- Grants paid
- $3,223,326
-
2022
- Revenue
- $8,176,290
- Expenses
- $4,184,300
- Contributions
- $8,095,064
- Grants paid
- $2,558,416
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
- $3,398,649
- Expenses
- $3,446,044
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,785,151
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,464,171
- Expenses
- $4,112,233
- Assets (EOY)
- $8,276,346
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,749,534
- Expenses
- $2,268,493
- Assets (EOY)
- $6,800,909
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $349,551
- Expenses
- $261,880
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,412,989
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,914,421
- Expenses
- $5,436,547
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,285,328
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,893,300
- Expenses
- $1,484,252
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,819,754
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,900,480
- Expenses
- $962,495
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,546,204
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,301,636
- Expenses
- $1,140,578
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,843,976
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,017,751
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,501,768
-
2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $880,374
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,217,016
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
-
$3,646,334
2024 SUPPORT BPL PROGRAMS
-
$3,222,326
2023 SUPPORT BPL PROGRAMS
-
$2,558,416
2022 SUPPORT BPL PROGRAMS, ALKER ENDOWMENT, AND LEVENTHAL MAP AND EDUCATION CENTER
Grants received
-
2023 PROGRAMMING
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$132,668
2023 Program Support
-
$99,598
2022 As recommended by donor via platform
-
$80,500
2022 EDUCATIONAL
-
$75,000
2023 EDUCATIONAL
-
$45,100
2023 MATCHING GIFTS; FOOD & HEALTH
-
2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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
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501(C)(3) · LIBRARY · MA
Declared as related by
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TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON
On its 2023 return
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.