New Village Press
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821961453
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5107173101
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,465
- Expenses
- $71,736
- Assets
- $133,948
- Liabilities
- $99,431
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lynne Elizabeth (President)
People named in this filing
- Jody Beck (Board Member)
- Lynne Elizabeth (President)
- Erica Kohl-Arenas (Board Member)
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
New Village Press is a public-benefit publisher devoted to the building of vibrant, equitable communities. Our books serve the fields of social justice, community development, ecology, and community-based arts and culture. The Press crosses boundaries between professional, academic, and informal education with books that engage practitioners and community activists working together to heal social wounds and vitalize neighborhoods.
What it reported doing in 2025
New Village Press published five (5) books: Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations, by Margaret Randall; DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice, by Judy Karofsky; More Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations, by Margaret Randall; ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia, by Barbara Benish; Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule, edited by Sonya E. Pritzker. These books benefitted approximately 7,000 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.9%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.