FINANCIAL RECORDS,, 1976-1995
Dates
- 1976-1995
Scope and Contents
Summary:Contains Heresies' financial records and documents the chronically underfunded journal's ongoing efforts to obtain funding via benefits, donations, and grants. Document types include financial reports, tax records, grant applications and reports, correspondence, invitations, lists, notes, invoices, receipts, estimates, and handwritten budgets.
The grant files are of particular interest for their often-frank assessments of the challenges encountered by the mother and editorial collectives, in addition to their detailed financial information.
Language of Materials
English, Spanish
Arrangement
Arrangement: Following original order, this series contains eight informal subseries:
- • Grants, Taxes, and Expenses are arranged alphabetically, then chronologically within each grouping.
- • Financial Reports and Budgets are arranged chronologically.
- • Benefits, Foundations, and Fundraising are arranged alphabetically.
General
Appraisal and Discard Information: This series contains many stained, tanned, or faded documents. Paper types include onionskin, thermal copy paper, newsprint, and carbon paper. All documents remain legible, but it may be worthwhile to photocopy faded originals.
The following changes and discards were made during processing:
- • Six black-and-white photographs of the 1982 Frank Marino benefit were discarded due to flood damage.
- • One folder containing quarterly tax returns for the years 1979-1985 was separated into its component years to improve navigability.
- • Two W-4 forms were removed from 1980's federal tax return to protect privacy.
- • Non-descriptive phone messages and postage receipts were discarded from the NEA 1989-1990 and 1990-1991 files.
- • A mis-filed letter related to the 1981-1982 NYSCA grant was removed from the 1980-1981 NYSCA folder and re-filed.
- • The 1986-1987 NYSCA grant documents were found loose in the box and a folder created for them.
- • A complete photocopy of issue #3 was removed from the NYSCA 1989-1990 grant file.
- • The folder 'Grants—NYS Council for the Humanities: Film Festival '83' was originally titled 'NYSCA-General' and revised for clarity.
- • The folders for Capital City Printers were originally one folder and split for manageability.
- • A number of acidic/tanned documents and press clippings were copied, and the originals discarded.
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