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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: 2024-12-31
IRS tax year label: 2024(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 period2024-12-31
  • Found
    Financials8 of 8 fields present
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    Leadership10 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 (2024-12-31)

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

Total Revenue$26,831,969
Total Expenses$23,501,138
Program Service Expenses$20,121,045
Management & General$2,068,754
Fundraising Expenses$1,311,339
Total Assets (End of Year)$10,704,807
Total Liabilities (End of Year)$9,751,199
Net Assets (End of Year)$953,608

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.

$0$16.3M$32.7M202020212022202320242025

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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 yearRevenueExpensesSurplusProgram %Source
FY2025$23,709,162▼ 11.6%$27,766,880▲ 18.2%−$4,057,71886.6%990
FY2024$26,831,969▲ 13.3%$23,501,138▼ 28.1%$3,330,83185.6%990
FY2023$23,678,074▼ 22.5%$32,674,667▲ 26.5%−$8,996,59391.1%990
FY2022$30,547,311▲ 3.9%$25,827,598▲ 2.0%$4,719,71387.9%990
FY2021$29,414,365▲ 35.2%$25,327,789▲ 27.0%$4,086,57689.4%990
FY2020$21,753,624$19,950,582$1,803,04289.3%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 (2024)

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)
    $229,246
    Other Comp.
    $8,415
  • Joy Chesbrough
    Dir. Philanthropy
    Hrs/Wk
    0
    Comp. (Org)
    $0
    Comp. (Related)
    $246,421
    Other Comp.
    $8,685
  • Kathleen Burch
    Board Member · Director, Trustee
    No compensation · 1 hr/wk
  • Kenji Nagahashi
    Senior Engineer
    Hrs/Wk
    0
    Comp. (Org)
    $0
    Comp. (Related)
    $218,406
    Other Comp.
    $6,934
  • Mark Graham
    Dir Wayback Mach.
    Hrs/Wk
    0
    Comp. (Org)
    $0
    Comp. (Related)
    $229,362
    Other Comp.
    $8,629
  • Rick Prelinger
    Treasurer · Officer, Director, Trustee
    No compensation · 5 hrs/wk
  • Samuel Stroller
    Senior Engineer
    Hrs/Wk
    0
    Comp. (Org)
    $0
    Comp. (Related)
    $222,134
    Other Comp.
    $8,677
  • Scott Fong
    Secretary · Officer
    Hrs/Wk
    30
    Comp. (Org)
    $0
    Comp. (Related)
    $193,259
    Other Comp.
    $666

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