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THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 11-1630813 BROOKLYN, NY

Revenue 2022
$1,349,746
Expenses 2022
$1,349,746

Program services were 69.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
128 PIERREPONT STREET

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).

Officers and directors · 2022

As listed in Part VII of the 2022 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ALAN NISSELSON - UNTIL 61323

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MIRIAM KATOWITZ - UNTIL 61323

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related
  • SANDRA SCHUBERT - UNTIL 61323

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related
  • HEATHER MALIN - UNTIL 61323

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $236,384
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $191,562
    Other
    $44,822
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $191,562 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $15,474 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $29,348 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $236,384 related
  • KAREN SHEEHAN - UNTIL 61323

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $336,770
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $271,337
    Other
    $65,433
    Hours/week
    1 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $261,337 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $10,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $36,807 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $28,626 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $336,770 related

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 — 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

  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,349,746
    Expenses
    $1,349,746
    Contributions
    $1,336,596
    Grants paid
    $692,006

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.

Grants made

  • 2022 DISSOLUTIONON JUNE 13, 2023, THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY WAS FORMALLY MERGED WITH THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (THE "SOCIETY") UNDER THE CHARTER OF THE NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF REGENTS. BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE SURVIVING ENTITY, WILL CONTINUE TO ADMINISTER THE PURPOSES OF THE MERGED ENTITIES. PRIOR TO THE MERGER, ON OCTOBER 1, 2020, THE LIBRARY ENTERED INTO AN AFFILIATION AGREEMENT WITH THE SOCIETY WHEREBY THE SOCIETY RE-ORGANIZED ITS CORPORATE STRUCTURE AS A MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION AND WHEREBY THE LIBRARY BECAME THE SOLE CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY ON THE DATE OF THE AFFILIATION AGREEMENT. IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES GENERALLY ACCEPTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ("U.S. GAAP"), THE LIBRARY ACCOUNTED FOR THE AFFILIATION AGREEMENT AS THOUGH THE LIBRARY ACQUIRED THE SOCIETY, AS OF THE AFFILIATION DATE, AND IN DOING SO, THE LIBRARY RECOGNIZED $15,819,686 IN NET ASSETS ON THE DATE OF THE AFFILIATION AGREEMENT AT FAIR VALUE.

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Grants received

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 2022 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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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.