2025-10-07T18:39:39-07:00 2024-12-31 Adam Baker CPA 32508 Turkey Loop Underwood MN 56586 990 2024-01-01 460928860 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC BENJ 6105042178 7360 Curry Ford Road PO Box 720182 Orlando FL 32822 Jamie Joyce President 6105042178 2025-10-06 1 1 Adam Baker P00686824 3177482640 2025-10-06 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z THE SOCIETY LIBRARY Jamie Joyce 7360 Curry Ford Road Orlando FL 32822 772846 0 X https://www.societylibrary.org X 2014 FL The Society Library's mission is to create a fully intentional, collaborative humanity which functionally negotiates ideological differences in a manner that maximizes freedom in being through access to archived information. 3 3 0 3 0 0 189311 772846 0 0 0 0 0 0 189311 772846 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18434 47895 471217 47895 471217 141416 301629 202667 493710 10596 0 192071 493710 The Society Library's mission is to create a fully intentional, collaborative humanity which functionally negotiates ideological differences in a manner that maximizes freedom in being through access to archived information. 0 0 284213 0 0 Information Gathering, Archiving, and Analysis: The Society Library devotes substantial effort to collecting, researching, and archiving information about as many detectable points of view as possible on complex social and political issues in order to build digital library collections. These efforts include collecting the arguments, claims, sentiments, opinions, evidence, and data found within scholarly articles, government reports, documentaries, news, television, books, textbooks, podcasts, classroom materials, websites, various social media, as well as receiving bulk collections from institutional partners or through in-person interviews and group sessions. This information is then curated and organized into online reference library collections through various manual and technological means, including AI tools like automated research and analysis. The purpose of the library is to assist the public in searching for the truth in a less biased, more rigorous, and more expedient manner. Although The Society Library curates, cleans, and enriches information, it does not censor, aim to bias, nor desire to corrupt information. We hold ourselves to high ethical standards, which are detailed on our website. Overall The Society Library aims to preserve the library tradition throughout the 21st century in a new digital form, by preserving and presenting information in organized ways that maximally benefit public truth-seeking as well as the acquisition of knowledge and wisdom. 5991 0 0 Information Delivery, Education, Utility, and Access: REVIEW /UPDATE Once information is thoroughly researched, organized, and published in library collections, The Society Library brings both the information itself and information literacy programming directly to the public. This is done through: 1.) An online, browsable library database for active learners to easily access information on social and political issues. 2.) Visualizations that summarize the content in the library to provide different ways for learners to access the information, which includes products like: Vote By Reason, Papers, Catalog, and our AI Agent technology. 3.) Educational programs, such as internships, in which we teach our rigorous research methodology and logic-based media literacy curriculum. 4.) Educational content, including written publications, educational videos, instructional demos, and tutorials. 5.) Partnerships that may apply or disseminate the data through other research and educational projects for public benefit, usually by utilizing our API-accessible information gathering tools. 2188 0 0 Targeted Services and Consultation: To support the sustainability of the organization, The Society Library provides research and consulting services based on its expertise, methodology, and technological capabilities. These services include: building content databases, fact-checking services, building online FAQs, analyzing legislation, and consulting to improve the logical decision-making capabilities of groups and individuals. The Society Library selects clientele based on their alignment with The Society Library's mission and for the ability to advance The Society Library's internal technological development, public-benefit programming or its internal training. Clients include private individuals, city-level public officials, federal-level public officials, non-partisan activist organizations, news organizations, and private companies. The Society Library is not interested in advancing any partisan agenda whatsoever. The Society Library only works with non-partisan activists groups and government officials on the basis that the subject of research interest is aligned with the Society Library's topic scope and The Society Library is not asked to compromise its conduct, in which we strive to be maximally truth-seeking and as unbiased as possible. The Society Library outright refuses to engage in any advancement of one party in an information war dynamic over others, we simply exist to advance truth-seeking itself. 149910 0 0 Refund of FY23 Donation 149910 0 0 442302 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 FL X Sharon Hammond 6105042178 7360 Curry Ford Road Orlando FL 32822 Jamie Joyce President, Director 50 0 X X 64000 0 0 Sharon Hammond Treasurer, Director 5 0 X X 0 0 0 Timothy High Secretary, Director 1 0 X X 0 0 0 64000 0 0 0 0 0 0 Matthew Sevrens 8 Anton Way Navato CA 94945 Engineering 141000 1 0 0 0 0 0 772846 444415 772846 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 772846 0 0 0 X 59000 41500 0 17500 350 0 350 0 212585 212084 501 0 51 45 3 3 0 43213 38763 4450 0 35 0 35 0 809 0 809 0 1408 0 1408 0 Refunds - Prior Year Donations 149910 149910 0 0 Fundraising Expense 931 0 0 931 2925 0 2925 0 471217 442302 10481 18434 188697 31210 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7043 1408 1520 5635 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12450 456865 202667 493710 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10596 0 0 10596 0 X 192071 493710 0 0 192071 493710 202667 493710 301629 0 0 0 10 0 X 0 0 0 X 31406 94776 160082 189311 772846 1248421 31406 94776 160082 189311 772846 1248421 428600 819821 1248421 0.65669 0.90240 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7043 0 1408 5635 0 0 0 0 5635 Crypto Currency 456865 456865 X Crypto Currency 32 444415 Fair Value 3 0 1 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b AN ELECTRONIC COPY OF THE FINAL FORM 990, INCLUDING ALL REQUIRED SCHEDULES, IS MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL VOTING BOARD MEMBERS PRIOR TO FILING THE RETURN WITH THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Compensation is determined by the Board after a market analysis of comparable salaries. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available on request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Contractors - $212,586