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Filing year 2024

ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC

Brooklyn, New York·EIN 61-1423856·NTEE A33 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$987k
Total assets
$1.2M
Total expenses
$979k
Reported officers
18
Mission

ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT PRESS DEVOTED TO PUBLISHING OUTSTANDING TRANSLATIONS OF VITAL WORKS OF CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE. IN OUR TWENTY-ONE YEARS, WE HAVE BROUGHT OUT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE BOOKS FROM MORE THAN FORTY LANGUAGES.ARTISTIC EXCHANGE BETWEEN CULTURES IS A CRUCIAL ASPECT OF GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING. IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT FOR VOICES FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO BE HEARD IN THIS COUNTRY-OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD DEPENDS UPON IT. SADLY, LESS THAN THREE PERCENT OF NEW LITERATURE PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES ORIGINATES OUTSIDE THE ANGLOSPHERE. BY PUBLISHING DIVERSE AND INNOVATIVE LITERARY TRANSLATIONS, WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO CHANGE THIS LAMENTABLE CIRCUMSTANCE AND TO BROADEN THE AMERICAN LITERARY LANDSCAPE.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

Publisher/executive Director
director (operational)
$67k
$72k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 17 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Held steady
from 2023

From $66k in 2023 to $67k in 2024.

$66k
2023
$67k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 3% in real terms$74k to $72k

Estimated with New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS INC reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$909k
$933k
2023
$987k
$979k
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in New York

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in New York pay their highest-earning executive a median of $71,214.

25th percentile
$26k
Median
$71,214
75th percentile
$161k
90th percentile
$321k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 608 organizations across 608 filings (2021 – 2023).

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