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Butler County Federated Library System

Public library services

$622k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.3M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $507k
$51,655
Median grant
1
States reached
$239k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY$230,005
CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY$155,007
ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY$70,019
SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY$51,655
MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY$47,635
EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY$37,380
PROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY$26,132
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $48k → 9%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $47k → 9%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $44k → 9%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $43k → 9%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $42k → 9%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $39k → 9%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $36k → 9%MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $36k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $52k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $50k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $45k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $44k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $43k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $42k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $41k → 9%SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $40k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $37k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $31k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $31k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $31k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $29k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $28k → 9%EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $28k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $155k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $70k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $151k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $70k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $133k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $62k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $131k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $60k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $122k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $59k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $120k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $57k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $117k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $56k → 9%CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $115k → 9%ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $55k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $230k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $230k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $209k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $207k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $197k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $196k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $194k → 9%BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $191k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
0

Total granted

$4.3M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BA
    BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +76% · 46% of their budget
  • CP
    CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
  • ZA
    ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $488k · revenue +48%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    3
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    7/7
    Grantees still filing
    5/7
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,655,018 · OtherBUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARYCRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,044,785 · OtherCRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY INCZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $488,106 · OtherZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARYMARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $334,670 · OtherMARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONEVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $248,028 · OtherEVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONSOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $355,927 · EducationSOUTH BUTLER C…PROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $186,510 · EducationPROSPECT COMMU…
    Other$3,770,607Education$542,437

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,655,018 over 8y, 46% of budgetCRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,044,785 over 8y, 19% of budgetZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $488,106 over 8y, 23% of budgetSOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $355,927 over 8y, 24% of budgetMARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $334,670 over 8y, 17% of budgetEVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $248,028 over 8y, 28% of budgetPROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $186,510 over 8y, 41% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds BUTLER AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
    • Who funds CRANBERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
    • Who funds ZELIENOPLE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
    • Who funds SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
    • Who funds MARS AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds EVANS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds PROSPECT COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    Amazonsmile Foundation
    Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Butler County Federated Library System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Butler County Federated Library System. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24
    no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–24
      How this is measured
      Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
      05Through Plinth

      Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

      How do I get to Butler County Federated Library System?

      Find your warmest path to Butler County Federated Library System through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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