NORMAN B LEVENTHAL MAP & EDUCATION CENTER INC

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).

Other organizations at this address

4 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.

• ASSOCIATES OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC

  EIN 04-2900822

• BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC

  EIN 04-3150560

• CITY WIDE FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

  EIN 04-2966860

• TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON

  EIN 04-6151731

Mission and programs · 2024

• Collections: The Center stewards the cartographic collections of the Boston Public Library, encompassing a quarter million maps and other objects, ensuring the preservation, cataloging, organization and digitization of the collection. Areas of particular strength are our four "Collections of Distinction": Boston & New England, the American Revolutionary era, urban maps and maritime maps. Public access is a major part of our mission and we offer reference services for the collection including assistance in geographic information services (GIS) and support fellowships to carry out research in the collection to develop new scholarship.The Center also has an extensive digital resources available on our website for public and educational use, increasing access to our collections and educational materials. Our digital collection includes 12,000 digitized maps including our American Revolutionary War era cross-institutional collection of more than 2,000 digitized maps from partner institutions such as the British Library and Library of Congress. Many digitized maps have been georeferenced, enabling overlays of modern maps, and some are also mosaicked and tiled to enhance digital access. This includes maps from our urban atlas collection, which can be explored as overlays of different maps over time using our mobile app/web tool Atlascope. In addition, all past and current exhibitions are available in digital form on our website. Digitized material from our collections has been used in numerous web and print publications and digital humanities projects.

  Expenses $317,159 · Revenue $12,700

• Exhibitions and Public Outreach: The Center has presented 26 exhibitions since 2004. Exhibitions have traveled to New York, Washington DC, and Williamsburg as well as to other locations within the city of Boston. Showcasing items from the collection, exhibitions have highlighted such important subjects as the Revolutionary War and Civil War periods, 19th and 20th century immigration, voting patterns and rights, women's role in cartography, mapping of climate patterns, urban green spaces and U.S. westward expansion in the 19th century. Audiences upwards of 60,000 attend each gallery exhibition, including area residents, library patrons, tourists, researchers, students and teachers.All exhibitions are accompanied by a series of lectures and panel discussions with scholars and authors that explore themes related to the exhibition, with emphasis on relevance to contemporary issues. In addition, local micro-history and geography are explored in community events that use our Atlascope tool. Community partnerships add breadth and depth to both public and educational program offerings, including partnerships with faculty from area universities, and staff of municipal and non-profit organizations.

  Expenses $470,848

• Education Outreach: The Center is recognized as a national leader in innovative education programs that use cartographic materials and methods. Our K-12 programs are based in best practices for primary sources and inquiry-based teaching and fulfill local and national standards. These programs harness the power of maps and mapping to make a broad range of topics come alive in the K-12 classroom and onsite. The center offers professional development for educators via institutes, workshops and fellowships. We develop map sets and curriculum materials, often in collaboration with teacher advisors and fellows. Our online resources include a wide variety of maps sets, lesson plans and tools to help teacher use maps effectively in their classrooms. (Continued on Schedule O)Half of our educational service is to the Boston public schools, and to these and to other schools in need, education programs are offered free of charge.

  Expenses $169,629 · Revenue $2,492

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

  $1,826,938

  Expenses

  $1,341,755

  Contributions

  $1,657,261

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,427,936

  Expenses

  $1,019,941

  Contributions

  $1,310,594

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,562,712

  Expenses

  $1,082,889

  Contributions

  $1,528,400

  Grants paid

  $0

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

  $1,994,581

  Expenses

  $1,269,685

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,287,206

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,741,265

  Expenses

  $1,193,546

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,755,339

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,404,306

  Expenses

  $1,298,444

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,151,359

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,101,116

  Expenses

  $1,400,506

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,443,105

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,516,315

  Expenses

  $1,404,334

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,827,184

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,348,454

  Expenses

  $1,437,991

  Assets (EOY)

  $682,379

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,849,466

  Expenses

  $1,571,475

  Assets (EOY)

  $730,791

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $725,404

  Expenses

  $1,208,556

  Assets (EOY)

  $472,287

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,231,378

  Assets (EOY)

  $931,653

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,090,191

  Assets (EOY)

  $601,651

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 INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $31,550

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $18,425

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $15,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $13,200

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC

  $7,750

  2023 · HUMANITIES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $6,200

  2024 · EDUCATION

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