Internet Archive

Verified Identity

EIN: 94-3242767

Legal name: Internet Archive

Location: San Francisco, CA, US

Jurisdiction: United States

Status: Active

Website: www.archive.org

Filing Source

Return type: 990

Period ending: 2025-12-31

IRS tax year label: 2025(the IRS labels a return by the year its fiscal period started, not ended)

Source document: View IRS filing

Data Coverage

What was found in the available filing, and what was absent.

Found
RegistrationEIN: 94-3242767
Found
Filing sourceIRS filing document linked
Found
Accounting period2025-12-31
Found
Financials8 of 8 fields present
Found
Leadership11 named people
Found
Mission / PurposeProgram description present

Found — from a primary structured source (XBRL or IRS XML)

Extracted — from HTML or text parsing; verify against the original filing

Not in filing — filing was processed; this field was not present

Financials (2025-12-31)

Reported in USD. Figures are from the IRS Form 990 XML filing.

Total Revenue$23,709,162

Total Expenses$27,766,880

Program Service Expenses$24,039,679

Management & General$2,108,911

Fundraising Expenses$1,618,290

Total Assets (End of Year)$9,668,632

Total Liabilities (End of Year)$6,910,149

Net Assets (End of Year)$2,758,483

Financial History

By fiscal year, named for the year it ends. Reported in USD, as filed; years without a stored filing are shown as gaps, never as zero.

Hover or tab to a year for its figures.

Revenue grew at a compound annual rate of +1.7% from FY2020 to FY2025.

Financial figures by fiscal year, with the change from the previous year
Fiscal year	Revenue	Expenses	Surplus	Program %	Source
FY2025	$23,709,162▼ 11.6%	$27,766,880▲ 18.2%	−$4,057,718	86.6%	990
FY2024	$26,831,969▲ 13.3%	$23,501,138▼ 28.1%	$3,330,831	85.6%	990
FY2023	$23,678,074▼ 22.5%	$32,674,667▲ 26.5%	−$8,996,593	91.1%	990
FY2022	$30,547,311▲ 3.9%	$25,827,598▲ 2.0%	$4,719,713	87.9%	990
FY2021	$29,414,365▲ 35.2%	$25,327,789▲ 27.0%	$4,086,576	89.4%	990
FY2020	$21,753,624	$19,950,582	$1,803,042	89.3%	990

Changes compare consecutive fiscal years with the same year-end; a dash means the change can't be stated (a figure is missing or the year-end moved). Surplus is revenue minus expenses. FY2025 is the latest stored.

Staff & Volunteers

As reported in Part I of Form 990 (lines 5 and 6). Organizations whose staff are employed by a related entity may report zero employees.

Employees0

Volunteers50

Disclosed Leadership (2025)

Officers, directors, trustees, and key employees listed in Part VII of the filing.

Brewster Kahle
Board Chair · Officer, Director, Trustee
No compensation · 40 hrs/wk
David Rumsey
Board Member · Director, Trustee
No compensation · 1 hr/wk
Jefferson Bailey
Dir, Web Archiving
Hrs/Wk
0
Comp. (Org)
$0
Comp. (Related)
$230,731
Other Comp.
$7,405
Jessica Ovbiagele from 11125
Secretary · Officer
Hrs/Wk
30
Comp. (Org)
$0
Comp. (Related)
$158,055
Other Comp.
$483
Joy Chesbrough
Dir. Philanthropy
Hrs/Wk
0
Comp. (Org)
$0
Comp. (Related)
$240,173
Other Comp.
$5,938
Kathleen Burch
Board Member · Director, Trustee
No compensation · 1 hr/wk
Mark Graham
Dir Wayback Mach.
Hrs/Wk
0
Comp. (Org)
$0
Comp. (Related)
$230,751
Other Comp.
$9,573
Rick Prelinger
Treasurer · Officer, Director, Trustee
No compensation · 5 hrs/wk
Samuel Stoller
Senior Engineer
Hrs/Wk
0
Comp. (Org)
$0
Comp. (Related)
$228,851
Other Comp.
$10,116
Scott Fong til 103125
Secretary · Officer
Hrs/Wk
30
Comp. (Org)
$0
Comp. (Related)
$183,476
Other Comp.
$722
Tracey Jaquith
Senior Engineer
Hrs/Wk
0
Comp. (Org)
$0
Comp. (Related)
$242,958
Other Comp.
$5,747

Mission / Purpose

Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, movies, images, software and web pages.

Filings

Period ending: 2025-12-31
Return Type: 990
IRS tax year label: 2025
View IRS filing
Period ending: 2024-12-31
Return Type: 990
IRS tax year label: 2024
View IRS filing
Period ending: 2023-12-31
Return Type: 990
IRS tax year label: 2023
View IRS filing
Period ending: 2022-12-31
Return Type: 990
IRS tax year label: 2022
View IRS filing
Period ending: 2021-12-31
Return Type: 990
IRS tax year label: 2021
View IRS filing
Period ending: 2020-12-31
Return Type: 990
IRS tax year label: 2020
View IRS filing