American Booksellers for Free Expression Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334350479
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Harrison, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7712433101
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON HILL (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ALLISON HILL (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RAY DANIELS (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- DAVID HOROWITZ (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
American booksellers for free expression foundation (abfe) was created by the american booksellers association (aba), a recognized 501(c)(6) organization to support aba's exempt purposes. Specifically, abfe will conduct (i) educational workshops and seminars to promote freedom of speech and expression, (ii) campaigns to raise public awareness about constitutional rights as they pertain to books and reading, and (iii) limited issue advocacy supporting constitutional rights related to authors, booksellers, and readers. Please refer to the attachment for more details.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education- abfe will sponsor and hold various workshops and seminars online, in person, and via social media to educate the general public on freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Abfe will also hold various "book talks," book signings, and other similar events where authors of different viewpoints, beliefs, and backgrounds are highlighted, thus encouraging the general public to consume literature of all types and perspectives. Abfe also plans to develop and disseminate reading lists and other educational materials to inform the general public about new and rising authors, literature, and constitutional rights affecting readers, authors, and books.abfe's educational programming will be funded by contributions and grants and will be conducted by abfe's employees and volunteers. Abfe's educational programming will be made available to all members of the public at no cost. Where abfe deems it appropriate and in furtherance of its exempt purposes, abfe may collaborate with aba and other nonprofit organizations to conduct educational programming at such organizations' conferences and conventions. Abfe's educational programming will be made available to all attendees of those conferences and conventions as well as members of the public at no cost. Abfe anticipates that its educational programming will consist of eighty (80%) percent of its time and resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 41
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 50%; rating input score 50; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.