Funds and finances

What the Treasurer's reports in the archive say about the Friends' money: cash at year end, annual receipts and spending, and the history of the named funds.

Figures are copied from the reports as written, in the dollars of their day. They are not audited, and years without a report in the archive are left blank. Two year-end balances, 2008 and 2010, are worked out from the statements on either side, as their notes say.

Operating cash at year end

Each bar is the cash balance a Treasurer's report gives for the end of that year (hover for the exact figure; click to open the report). Gaps are years with no year-end report in the archive.

Show these figures as a table

Year	As reported	Amount	Source
1960	Balance as of 1961-01-29	$12	Treasurer’s ledger, October 1959–January 1961
1961	Balance as of 1962-01-31	$148	Treasurer’s ledger — 1962 and January 1963
1962	Balance as of 1963-01-31	$96	Treasurer’s ledger — 1962 and January 1963
1963	Balance as of 1964-01-24	$77	Treasurer's report and ledger, February 1963–January 1964
1964	Balance as of 1965-01-04	$68	Treasurer's ledger, 1964–1965
1965	Balance as of 1966-01-19	$204	Audited annual financial summary, 1966
1966	Balance as of 1967-01-24	$458	Annual receipts and expenses summary for 1967
1967	Balance as of 1968-01-31	$297	Annual receipts and expenses summary for 1967
1968	Balance as of 1969-02-02	$571	General treasurer's ledgers
1969	Balance as of 1969-12-31	$578	Treasurer's statement — January to September
1970	Balance as of 1970-12-31	$364	Annual financial statement for 1971
1971	Balance as of 1971-12-31	$412	Treasurer's annual summary for 1972
1972	Balance as of 1972-12-31	$553	Treasurer's annual summary for 1972
1973	Balance as of 1974-02-13	$473	Budget and annotated working copies
1974	Balance as of 1975-01-28	$563	Treasurer's statement — April 1975
1975	Balance as of 1976-01-30	$300	Handwritten budget and income worksheet
1976	Balance as of 1977-01-25	$274	Handwritten budget and income worksheet
1977	Balance as of 1978-01-24	$493	Treasurer's corrected receipts and disbursements report
1978	Balance as of 1978-12-31	$234	Receipts and disbursements ledger
1979	Balance as of 1979-12-31	$654	Receipts and expense ledger
1980	Balance as of 1980-12-31	$95	Receipts and expense ledger
1981	Balance as of 1981-12-31	$870	Receipts and disbursements ledger for 1982
1982	Balance as of 1982-12-31	$354	Year-end treasurer's report and memorial-fund balance
1983	Balance as of 1983-12-31	$473	Treasurer's report — 1984 annual accounts
1984	Balance as of 1984-12-31	$1,420	Treasurer's report — December 18, 1985
1985	Balance as of 1985-12-17	$2,054	Treasurer's report — December 17, 1986
1986	Balance as of 1986-12-17	$2,590	Treasurer's report — December 17, 1986
1987	Balance as of 1987-12-30	$2,011	Treasurer's report — January 18, 1989, unannotated copy
1988	Balance as of 1988-12-31	$8,602	Cumulative financial report — calendar 1989
1989	Balance as of 1989-12-31	$5,530	Cumulative financial report — calendar 1989
1990	Balance as of 1990-12-12	$5,551	Cumulative financial report — four quarters through December 12, 1990
1991	Balance as of 1991-12-31	$5,883	Operating fund annual report and Belasco account schedule
1992	Balance as of 1992-12-31	$4,200	Operating fund annual report with Belasco reimbursements
1993	Balance as of 1993-12-31	$7,021	Annual report for operations, Save Our Library and Belasco
1994	Balance as of 1994-12-31	$3,769	Annual report — operations, library reserve and Belasco fund
1995	Balance as of 1995-12-31	$7,500	Certified annual financial report for 1995
1996	Balance as of 1996-12-31	$4,532	Treasurer’s annual report for operations and the two library funds
1997	Balance as of 1997-11-19	$3,111	Jack Belasco contributes $1,000 toward the memorial endowment
1998	Balance as of 1998-12-31	$6,444	Annual election, $1,000 Huebscher gift and corporate matching
1999	Balance as of 2000-01-20	$10,980	Annual meeting elects officers and discusses library renovation
2000	Balance as of 2000-12-31	$5,726	Annual meeting records Belasco ownership statement and elects officers
2001	Balance as of 2001-12-31	$6,319	Annual meeting elects officers and reviews separate funds
2002	Balance as of 2002-12-31	$4,371	Annual meeting elects officers and assigns sale proceeds
2004	Balance as of 2004-12-31	$6,799	Treasurer's 2004 operating report and separate fund balances
2006	Balance as of 2006-12-31	$11,157	Treasurer's April 2007 report with memorial accounts
2007	Balance as of 2007-12-31	$18,060	Treasurer's February 2008 operating and fund report
2008	Balance as of 2008-12-31	$34,557	—
2009	Balance as of 2009-12-31	$31,125	Special meeting adopts bylaws and elects officers
2010	Balance as of 2010-12-31	$31,976	—
2011	Balance as of 2011-12-31	$15,194	2012 year-end operations summary
2012	Balance as of 2012-12-31	$13,692	2013 financial results with skylight annotation
2013	Balance as of 2013-12-31	$24,713	Second-quarter 2014 operations status
2014	Balance as of 2014-12-31	$27,359	Second-quarter 2015 operations summary
2015	Balance as of 2015-12-31	$32,159	Final 2016 operations comparison
2016	Balance as of 2016-12-31	$41,767	Final 2016 annual summary
2017	Balance as of 2017-12-31	$50,368	Final 2017 annual summary

Year by year, 1959 to 2017

Receipts, spending and cash for each year, reconciled across the Treasurer's reports. In most years the opening balance plus receipts, less spending, equals the closing balance to the cent; the notes explain every year that does not. Until 1977 the Friends' year ran from one January annual meeting to the next. Receipts and spending include money moved between operating cash and the Friends' own invested funds, which the notes identify.

Year	Receipts	Spending	Cash at year end	Invested funds	Notes
1960 Oct 1959 – Jan 1961	$360	$348	$12		First accounts ran 16 months, from the October 1959 founding to the January 1961 annual meeting.
1961 Feb 1961 – Jan 1962	$128	$35	$148		Opens with the $11.90 bank balance plus $44.25 cash deposited Jan. 31, 1961.
1962	$817	$870	$96		Balance after the last 1962 items; the bank showed $89.24 on Jan. 30, 1963 after later bills.
1963	—	—	$77		No annual totals survive; balance on Jan. 24, 1964.
1964	—	—	$68		No annual totals survive; balance on Jan. 4, 1965.
1965	$403	$267	$204
1966	$560	$303	$458
1967 Jan 1967 – Jan 1968	$463	$624	$297		The statement's $921.20 receipts figure includes the $458.23 carried forward; new receipts were $462.97.
1968 Feb 1968 – Feb 1969	$857	$574	$571		Opens at $288.84 on Feb. 28, 1968, after bills paid at the annual meeting.
1969	—	—	$578		Only Feb.–Sept. totals survive: receipts $533.75, spending $436.75.
1970	$570	$784	$364
1971	$696	$649	$412		Bank balance; with $8.24 petty cash the total was $420.26.
1972	$886	$753	$553		Checkbook $545.46 plus petty cash $7.20. The $7.20 difference is the petty cash.
1973	$771	$851	$473		The statement's $1,323.64 includes the $552.66 carried forward; new receipts were $770.98.
1974	—	—	$563		Only totals through October survive: receipts $820.12, spending $580.37.
1975 Jan 1975 – Jan 1976	$737	$1,000	$300		Spending is the revised total after four bills added at the January 1976 meeting ($936.30 before them).
1976 Jan 1976 – Jan 1977	$511	$537	$274
1977 Jan 1977 – Jan 1978	$1,313	$1,055	$493		Opens at $234.47 after $39.07 in bills paid at the January 1977 meeting.
1978	—	—	$234		Only Jan.–Aug. totals survive: receipts $436.35, spending $335.11.
1979	—	—	$654		Ledger balances survive; no annual totals.
1980	—	—	$95		Ledger balances survive; no annual totals.
1981	—	—	$870		Ledger balances survive; no annual totals.
1982	$3,218	$3,733	$354
1983	$2,370	$2,198	$473		Receipts and spending run to Dec. 14, when the balance was $526.24 and the statement ties exactly. The $53.20 difference is late-December activity; the Dec. 31 ledger balance was $473.04.
1984	$3,027	$2,080	$1,420
1985	$2,889	$2,254	$2,054
1986	$3,983	$3,448	$2,590
1987	$7,734	$8,313	$2,011
1988	$12,388	$5,797	$8,602
1989	$7,278	$10,350	$5,530	$18,825
1990	$9,333	$9,312	$5,551		Totals and cash run to Dec. 12, 1990. A rounded summary elsewhere shows $9,457 and $6,945.
1991	$10,818	$10,776	$5,883	$21,643	Does not tie by $289.88; the 1992 statement misses by $303.42 the other way, so the two years together differ by $13.54.
1992	$13,330	$14,710	$4,200		See 1991: the opening balance carries the 1991 discrepancy.
1993	$14,006	$11,175	$7,021	$23,825
1994	$12,982	$16,232	$3,769	$28,433	Spending includes the $7,500 moved to the H.B. Library Fund CD.
1995	$24,482	$20,740	$7,500	$35,199	The statement prints $20,840.10, but its lines sum to $20,740.10. Spending includes the $5,000 H.B. Library Fund CD.
1996	$18,226	$21,195	$4,532	$44,882	Spending includes a $5,000 CD for the H.B. Library Fund and $4,775 to the Belasco Fund.
1997	—	—	$3,111		No annual totals survive; balance $3,111.34 on Nov. 19, 1997.
1998	$14,041^†	$9,669^†	$6,444		Receipts and spending run Jan. 1 – Nov. 19, 1998, when the balance was $8,069.98.
1999	—	—	$10,980		No annual totals survive; balance $10,979.98 on Jan. 20, 2000.
2000	$13,899	$19,172	$5,726		Opening balance taken from Jan. 20, 2000.
2001	—	—	$6,319
2002	—	—	$4,371
2003	—	—	—		No 2003 treasurer's statement survives.
2004	$20,715	$17,565	$6,799	$98,363	Spending includes $1,787.15 to the Belasco Fund and $2,029.30 to the Gazin Fund.
2005	$16,574^†	$19,097^†	—		Totals run Jan. 1 – Dec. 6, 2005. Spending includes $5,000 to the H.B. Library Fund, $1,573.41 to Gazin and $1,540.41 to Belasco.
2006	$25,980	$20,707	$11,157	$120,777	Spending includes $10,000 to Smith Barney for the five fund accounts, $3,137.22 for the Charlotte Malone fund and $752.23 for the Betty Evans fund.
2007	$20,782	$13,876	$18,060	$122,550
2008	$30,143	$13,645	$34,557	$116,817	No Dec. 31, 2008 balance survives; this figure follows from the 2008 and 2009 statements, which tie to the cent.
2009	$23,189	$26,621	$31,125	$128,488
2010	$27,425	$26,575	$31,976	$134,267	Derived from the 2010 totals; the last printed balance is $31,835.12 on Nov. 17, 2010.
2011	$28,608	$45,569	$15,194	$130,971	Receipts include $7,807.62 marked 'Transfer from Malone'. Spending covers two years of book orders. The year-end balance was restated three times ($16,222.12, $15,194.16; checking $14,994.16).
2012	$17,874	$20,093	$13,692	$135,084	Restated year-end. First reported as $15,475.00 with $20,373.51 receipts, counting a $2,500 Gazin Fund distribution deposited Jan. 15, 2013.
2013	$27,305	$18,111	$24,713	$133,974	Restated year-end (first reported $23,686.12); 2014 ties to it exactly. Receipts include the $2,500 Gazin distribution. The 2011–2013 differences come from these restatements, whose detail the archive does not hold.
2014	$21,314	$18,668	$27,359	$136,227
2015	$20,155	$15,355	$32,159	$135,623
2016	$20,140	$10,532	$41,767	$138,605	Operating balance; checking showed $42,539.72.
2017	$14,354	$5,753	$50,368	$141,225

† Part of the year only; the note gives the period. A dash means no figure survives in the archive. Each figure links to the report it comes from.

Funds and finances

Operating cash at year end

Year by year, 1959 to 2017

Named funds