John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization

“Christina paxson is an employee and an officer of brown university. Barbara chernow and richard locke are both employed by brown university and reported as key employees for the university's form 990 filing. Dietrich neumann is an employee of brown university.”

“Jnbc does not have any other committee which has authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“The tax return is prepared by the university and reviewed by the university's tax consultants. A copy of the form 990 is not made available to the governing body before filing. The controller's office is authorized to file the form 990 on the governing body's behalf.”

“In practice, jnbc adheres to brown university's policies and procedures. Brown university has a written conflict of interest policy, a written whistleblower policy and a written document retention & destruction policy.”

“All compensation was paid by brown university (ein: 05-0258809). Jnbc does not pay compensation for serving on the board of jnbc.”

“Jnbc is part of the university's consolidated financial statements. The university's financial statements, conflict of interest policies, and governing documents (charter and statutes) are made available to the public upon request and on their website. The jnbc form 990 is available upon request and additionally on guidestar. All other documents are available upon request.”

“John nicholas brown center (jnbc) supports brown university a section 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Jnbc was established to host visiting scholars, preserve the brown family papers, and to advance scholarship and education in the field of american civilizations.”

“Please note that column a, beginning of year balances for net assets and capital stock has been updated to provide a more complete and accurate report. The organization has no capital stock. This should have been recorded as net assets and as such has been updated for this filing.”

“Brown university's financial statements include the accounts of the john nicholas brown center for the study of american civilization, brown faculty club and brown university research foundation. All of which are separate entities that are consolidated in the financial statements. Brown university and these consolidated entities are collectively referred to herein as the university. All significant inter-entity transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.”