THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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).

Mission and programs · 2022

• COLLECTIONS: BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY HOUSES A WORLD-RENOWNED ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF ITS LANDMARK BUILDING. THE OTHMER LIBRARY'S MAGNIFICENT READING ROOM, WITH ITS STAINED-GLASS WINDOWS AND CARVED WOODEN COLUMNS, TRANSPORTS THE VISITOR TO AN EARLIER ERA. BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS THE ONLY CULTURAL INSTITUTION IN BROOKLYN THAT MAINTAINS A PERMANENT ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM. BEGUN IN 1973, BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS NOW INCLUDE OVER 1,200 INTERVIEWS. THROUGH AN INTEGRATED DESCRIPTION PROGRAM WITH THE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES, THESE ORAL HISTORIES BRING THE VOICES OF HISTORY TO BROAD AUDIENCES. THE COLLECTIONS PROVIDE A WEALTH OF HISTORICAL EVIDENCE ABOUT THE LIVES OF TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY BROOKLYN RESIDENTS AND REVEAL HOW DIVERSE INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES HAVE SOUGHT TO PRESERVE VITAL SOCIAL, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS AS BROOKLYNITES, NEW YORKERS, AND AMERICANS. THE COLLECTIONS CONTAIN INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, CANTONESE, AND MANDARIN, WITH NARRATORS BORN AS EARLY AS 1880.

  Expenses $939,470 · Grants $692,006

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 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.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $768,387

  Expenses

  $1,750,238

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,385,660

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,447,289

  Expenses

  $2,417,039

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,699,109

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,660,018

  Expenses

  $5,192,798

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,566,236

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,846,045

  Expenses

  $5,939,199

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,653,489

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,785,418

  Expenses

  $6,664,918

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,009,433

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,785,418

  Expenses

  $6,664,918

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,009,433

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,355,718

  Expenses

  $5,401,797

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,673,351

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,344,487

  Expenses

  $4,545,546

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,804,018

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,407,415

  Expenses

  $4,191,485

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,131,361

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.

Grants made

• BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY

  $692,006

  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

• BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY

  $0

  2022 · LOAN FORGIVENESS

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.

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