PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B700

Classification

2000

Street

10 BEACON ST # 12

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (# 12). 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.

• BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY

  EIN 04-1105450

Mission and programs · 2024

• LIBRARY SERVICES - SEE SCHEDULE O.LIBRARY SERVICES - THE LIBRARY IS THE LARGEST PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITY OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM, SERVING APPROXIMATELY 5,000 MEMBERS, THEIR FAMILIES, THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY, STUDENTS, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. IT IS COMPOSED OF TWO PRINCIPAL DEPARTMENTS: READER SERVICES AND TECHNICAL SERVICES. READER SERVICES AT THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM COMPRISES THE PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS THAT OFFER LIBRARY SERVICES. THE HEAD OF READER SERVICES AND THE ARCHIVIST/REFERENCE LIBRARIAN WORK AT THE REFERENCE DESK; THEY ANSWER HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS AND RESEARCHERS' QUESTIONS AND ASSIST IN THE USE OF CIRCULATING MATERIALS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, ELECTRONIC RESOURCES, AND ONLINE RESEARCH. THOUSANDS OF RARE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED FOR THE 200-300 RESEARCHERS WHO USE THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM EVERY YEAR. THE HEAD OF CIRCULATION AND THE READER SERVICES ASSISTANT MANAGE ACTIVITY AT THE CIRCULATION DESK, WHERE ROUGHLY 18,000 ITEMS CIRCULATE EACH YEAR. FIVE INTERNS ASSIST AT CIRCULATION AND REFERENCE. THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN HELPS YOUNGER MEMBERS USE THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY, AND OFFERS PROGRAMS INCLUDING STORY HOURS AND READING GROUPS, DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR CHILDREN. NINETEEN DISCUSSION GROUPS AND OVER 150 TOURS OF THE BUILDING ARE ARRANGED BY READER SERVICES EVERY YEAR. THE TECHNICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, MANAGED BY THE CHIEF TECHNICAL SERVICES LIBRARIAN, ENCOMPASSES THE FUNCTIONS OF ACQUISITIONS, CATALOGING, SERIALS, CONSERVATION, AND DIGITIZATION. THE UNITS OF ACQUISITIONS, CATALOGING, AND SERIALS INCLUDE, AN ACQUISITIONS LIBRARIAN, A SERIALS LIBRARIAN, THREE RARE MATERIALS CATALOG LIBRARIANS, TWO CATALOGING ASSISTANTS, AND THREE INTERNS. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SELECTING, ACQUIRING, ACCESSIONING, INVOICING, CATALOGING, AND PROCESSING APPROXIMATELY 2,700 ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY PER YEAR, INCLUDING BOTH NEW IMPRINTS AND RARE HISTORICAL VOLUMES. THE DEPARTMENT ALSO AUGMENTS APPROXIMATELY 3,000 LEGACY CATALOGING RECORDS PER YEAR.

  Expenses $4,468,659 · Grants $12,000 · Revenue $1,875,781

• SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - SEE SCHEDULE O.SPECIAL COLLECTIONS - THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT IS COMPOSED OF THE CURATORS WHO OVERSEE THE ACQUISITION, MAINTENANCE, AND EXHIBITION OF RARE BOOKS, ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS, MANUSCRIPTS, MAPS, AND WORKS OF ART. DEPARTMENT STAFF MEMBERS INCLUDE THE CURATOR OF RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, THE CURATOR OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE, THE ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE, THE ARCHIVIST, AND THE CURATOR OF PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. THE CURATORS RESEARCH OBJECTS IN THE COLLECTIONS AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM TO THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY AT LARGE AND TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH LECTURES, PUBLICATIONS, AND (IN COOPERATION WITH LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS AROUND THE COUNTRY) AN ACTIVE LOAN PROGRAM. EACH YEAR, ON SITE, THE CURATORS ASSIST HUNDREDS OF ATHENAEUM MEMBERS AND VISITING SCHOLARS IN RESEARCHING THE ATHENAEUM'S COLLECTIONS. THE CURATORIAL STAFF MOUNTS TWO OR THREE EXHIBITIONS PER YEAR COVERING A RANGE OF HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SUBJECTS. THESE EXHIBITIONS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY GALLERY TALKS, LECTURES, AND SYMPOSIA, ALL OF WHICH ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

  Expenses $4,108,191

• LECTURES & CONCERTS - SEE SCHEDULE O.LECTURES & CONCERTS - THE LECTURES AND CONCERTS PROGRAM INCLUDES APPROXIMATELY 100 EVENTS EACH YEAR, SUCH AS AUTHOR TALKS, LECTURES, CONCERTS, CHILDREN'S EVENTS, EXHIBITION RECEPTIONS AND MOVIES. EVENTS TAKE PLACE BOTH IN THE EVENING AND DURING THE DAY AND INCLUDE EVENTS THAT ARE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS WELL AS EVENTS FOR ATHENAEUM MEMBERS.

  Expenses $1,400,712 · Revenue $61,284

• CONSERVATION - SINCE 1963, THE CONSERVATION LABORATORY HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO THE LONG-TERM PRESERVATION OF THE ATHENAEUM'S HOLDINGS WITH INHERENT HISTORIC ARTISTIC OR LITERARY VALUE. THE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT INCLUDES THE CHIEF CONSERVATOR AND THE ASSOCIATE CONSERVATOR, AND SEVERAL INTERNS AND FELLOWS. ATHENAEUM CONSERVATORS PERFORM CONSERVATION TREATMENTS ON RARE AND CIRCULATING BOOKS, MAPS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, BROADSIDES, AND PAMPHLETS, AND FOLLOW PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION PROTOCOLS.DIGITAL PROGRAMS - THE DIGITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT IS DEDICATED TO THE ENHANCEMENT OF SCHOLARLY ACCESS TO THE COLLECTIONS THROUGH DIGITIZATION. THE HEAD OF DIGITAL PROGRAMS AND TWO INTERNS SCAN COLLECTION MATERIALS IN THE IMAGING STUDIO AND CREATE ONLINE RECORDSCONTAINING DIGITAL SURROGATES WITH THEIR CORRESPONDING METADATA. THESE EFFORTS ENSURE THAT ATHENAEUM COLLECTIONS ARE AVAILABLE FREELY ONLINE TO SCHOLARS, RESEARCHERS, STUDENTS, AND TO ANYONE IN THE WORLD WITH AN INTERNET CONNECTION.

  Expenses $658,637 · Revenue $242,052

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.

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

  $9,747,313

  Expenses

  $13,162,899

  Contributions

  $4,134,636

  Grants paid

  $12,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $9,044,794

  Expenses

  $13,158,180

  Contributions

  $2,997,595

  Grants paid

  $14,750

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,963,330

  Expenses

  $11,574,279

  Contributions

  $5,538,472

  Grants paid

  $13,250

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

  $9,102,071

  Expenses

  $10,365,737

  Assets (EOY)

  $107,592,815

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,281,803

  Expenses

  $9,605,931

  Assets (EOY)

  $130,203,809

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,740,754

  Expenses

  $8,968,255

  Assets (EOY)

  $117,206,929

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,085,396

  Expenses

  $8,997,172

  Assets (EOY)

  $114,365,020

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,953,670

  Expenses

  $8,256,902

  Assets (EOY)

  $113,812,866

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

• FIDELITY NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION

  $2,500,000

  2022 · ENDOWMENT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $509,837

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $450,680

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $409,347

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $101,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $79,500

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $60,125

  2023 · EDUCATION

• BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY

  $54,759

  2023 · GENERAL GRANT

• BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY

  $54,759

  2022 · GENERAL GRANT

• BOSTON LIBRARY SOCIETY

  $54,759

  2024 · GENERAL GRANT

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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