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ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC

EIN 13-0417693 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$79,432,809
Expenses 2024
$69,839,265

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
815 SECOND AVE 9TH FLR

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 · 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.

  • LISA E SHERMAN

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $2,351,763
    From this org
    $1,379,863
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $971,900
    Hours/week
    44.66

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $736,720
    Bonus
    $351,000
    Other
    $292,143
    Deferred
    $915,186
    Nontaxable benefits
    $56,714
    Filer's total
    $2,351,763
  • TARA WALPERT LEVY

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.5
  • DIEGO SCOTTI

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • RITA FERRO

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CARLA HASSAN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • KIRK MCDONALD

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • KIM KELLEHER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • LISA UTZSCHNEIDER

    CHAIR FINANCE COMMITTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • JONATHAN ADASHEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • TIM ARMSTRONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • ZENA ARNOLD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • JAY ASKINASI

    DIRECTOR, THRU 11/14/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • DR RICHARD AWDEH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • ANNA BAGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • LARA BALAZS

    DIRECTOR, THRU 9/30/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • MICHELE BARLOW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • NATALIE BASTIAN

    DIRECTOR, THRU 6/1/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • MOLLY BATTIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • NADJA BELLAN-WHITE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • LESLIE BERLAND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • JOSEPHINE BERTRAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • CHRIS BOOTHE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • ELIZABETH BRADY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • TYRONE BREWER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • ANDREA BRIMMER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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 — 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
    $79,432,809
    Expenses
    $69,839,265
    Contributions
    $37,709,285
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $78,792,786
    Expenses
    $68,900,074
    Contributions
    $35,098,218
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $71,825,199
    Expenses
    $65,598,836
    Contributions
    $30,948,559
    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.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 10 September 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.