New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC
AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,354 to it, the largest being BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($16,354). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $37M
What American Booksellers Association Inc does
Mission
The mission of the american booksellers association, inc. (aba) is to promote the success of member booksellers by: creating and providing member access to a knowledge base that is supportive of professional competence and business success: fostering national and local policy initiatives that are supportive of a diverse and competitive bookselling environment and that produce a level playing field with other book retailers; and promoting freedom of expression, and the importance of reading.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Content and education: founded in 1900, the american booksellers association is a national trade association that supports and advocates for the success of independent bookstores. We provide members with education, networking opportunities, advocacy, resources, and technology. In turn our members support local schools through book fairs, donations and author visits; promote literacy; provide inclusive community centers; connect readers and books; add character to neighborhoods; champion and center diverse and new voices; and contribute to the local economy. We feel honored to support them in their work.
Products and services: aba offers members an e-commerce platform for a monthly fee and the tools necessary for them to create fully transactional e-commerce websites. All aba members' bookstores can offer their customers a range of reading devices and/or digital titles and audiobook titles. Aba compiles and distributes to members a monthly list of independent bookseller recommendations, to be distributed by member stores in hard copy and electronically and used as a sales tool. Twice a year aba facilitates major promotions for member stores, bringing together authors, readers, and publishers at events across the country to support independent booksellers. Aba coordinates special purchasing programs for member stores and offers discounted or reduced prices on shipping, paper items, credit card processing, and other affinity partner products. Aba also offers members a comprehensive database of publishers' business terms that is regularly updated.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $43M to $37M (−14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Allison Hill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC's revenue grew 57% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- American Booksellers for Free Expression Foundation · exempt
- Book Sense Inc · corp_trust
- Booksellers Order Service Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16,354 to it, the largest being BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($16,354). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16,354 in grants to AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- BOOK INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,354 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing