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Encounter for Culture and Education

Website:

www.encounterbooks.com
Location:

New York, NY
Tax ID:

39-1688129
Tax-Exempt Status:

501(c)(3)

Budget (2014):

Revenue: $2,287,987
Expenses: $2,013,342
Assets: $2,677,063
Type:

Publishing Support Organization
Formation:

2006
President:

Roger Kimball
Latest 990 Filing (2020):

Revenue: $2,739,385

Expenses: $2,353,867

Assets: $2,890,072 1

References

  1. Encounter for Culture and Education, Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2020.

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Encounter for Culture and Education is a private foundation that supports the work of Encounter Books. Encounter Books publishes and distributes books that may otherwise go unpublished that aim to advance the ideals of liberty, a democratic society, and the cultural achievements of the West. 1

Background

Encounter Books was founded in 1998 by Peter Collier, in partnership with the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. The name Encounter Books was inspired by Encounter magazine, a liberal, anti-Soviet monthly literary journal founded by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol in 1953. 2

Funding

Encounter for Culture and Education is funded by donations from individuals, foundations, and businesses. Encounter for Culture and Education discloses many of its major donors in its tax filings, with the largest donations in 2020 coming from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation ($1 million), the Sarah Scaife Foundation ($160,000), and the Dian Graves Owen Foundation ($125,000). 3

Board of Directors

Roger Kimball is the president and publisher of Encounter Books and the editor and publisher of the New Criterion. Kimball sits on the board of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, is the chair of the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale University, and formerly sat on the board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 4

Patrick English is the vice chair of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. 5

Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Steele is the author of White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. 6

Lynette Zigman is the treasurer and secretary of the board. 7

References

  1. “About.” Encounter Books. Accessed April 24, 2023. https://www.encounterbooks.com/about/.
  2. “About.” Encounter Books. Accessed April 24, 2023. https://www.encounterbooks.com/about/.
  3. Encounter for Culture and Education, Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2020, Schedule B, Part I.
  4. “Roger Kimball.” Encounter Books. Accessed April 20, 2023. https://www.encounterbooks.com/authors/roger-kimball/
  5. “Partick J. English.” Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Accessed April 20, 2023. https://www.bradleyfdn.org/our-people/patrick-j.-english.
  6. “Shelby Steele.” Hoover Institution. Accessed April 20, 2023. https://www.hoover.org/profiles/shelby-steele.
  7. Encounter for Culture and Education, Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2020, Part VIII, Line 1.
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Nonprofit Information

  • Accounting Period: December - November
  • Tax Exemption Received: June 1, 2006

    • Available Filings

    Period Form Type Total revenue Total functional expenses Total assets (EOY) Total liabilities (EOY) Unrelated business income? Total contributions Program service revenue Investment income Comp. of current officers, directors, etc. Form 990
    2014 Dec Form PF $2,287,987 $2,013,342 $2,677,063 $122,757 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF
    2013 Dec Form PF $1,891,250 $2,003,271 $2,423,918 $144,257 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF
    2012 Dec Form PF $1,844,841 $1,866,947 $2,590,781 $199,099 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF
    2011 Dec Form PF $1,681,061 $1,746,647 $2,543,864 $130,076 $0 $0 $0 $0 PDF

    Additional Filings (PDFs)

    Encounter for Culture and Education


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