How much does Finger Lakes Library System give?

Finger Lakes Library System reported 16 grants totaling $90,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Finger Lakes Library System fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Membership Benefit (27%), Crime & Legal (22%).

Who are Finger Lakes Library System's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Tompkins County Public Library ($1.2M), Seymour Public Library District ($106k), Cortland Free Library ($103k).

Does Finger Lakes Library System fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Finger Lakes Library System based?

Finger Lakes Library System is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Finger Lakes Library System

To stimulate, coordinate and strengthen library and information services within cayuga, cortland, seneca, tioga, and tompkins counties.

$90k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2024: 10
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,993
Largest grant, FY2024: $558,094
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 24; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Finger Lakes Library System funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	16	$745k	0%
FY2023	10	$107k	0%
FY2022	22	$239k	23%
FY2021	11	$261k	27%
FY2020	3	$143k	0%
FY2019	5	$174k	0%
FY2018	24	$418k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.1MMembership Benefit$558kCrime & Legal$461kArts & Culture$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tompkins County Public Library	$1,151,986	8	n/a
Seymour Public Library District	$106,036	8	2%
Cortland Free Library	$102,643	8	3%
Waterloo Library and Historical Society Inc	$70,725	5	5%
Groton Public Library	$57,915	5	8%
Seneca Falls Library	$46,107	6	3%
Peck Memorial Library Association Inc	$43,079	2	26%
Edith B Ford Memorial Library	$38,062	3	4%
The Southworth Library Association	$36,135	3	5%
Lansing Community Library	$30,831	4	3%

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All grantees of Finger Lakes Library System by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tompkins County Public Library	$1,151,986	8	n/a
Seymour Public Library District	$106,036	8	2%
Cortland Free Library	$102,643	8	3%
Waterloo Library and Historical Society Inc	$70,725	5	5%
Groton Public Library	$57,915	5	8%
Seneca Falls Library	$46,107	6	3%
Peck Memorial Library Association Inc	$43,079	2	26%
Edith B Ford Memorial Library	$38,062	3	4%
The Southworth Library Association	$36,135	3	5%
Lansing Community Library	$30,831	4	3%
Phillips Free Library	$29,495	4	3%
Lodi Whittier Library	$28,985	2	11%
Interlaken Public Library	$28,589	2	19%
Ulysses Philomathic Library	$27,419	2	5%
Hazard Library Association	$26,411	2	14%
Fair Haven Public Library	$22,846	2	n/a
Apalachin Library Association	$21,346	2	4%
Port Byron Library Inc	$21,196	2	12%
Weedsport Free Library	$20,401	1	13%
Tappan Spaulding Memorial Library	$19,315	3	n/a
Lamont Memorial Free Library	$18,751	2	8%
Cady Library	$18,170	2	n/a
Berkshire Free Library	$18,061	3	9%
Candor Free Library	$16,867	3	8%
Newfield Public Library	$14,921	2	4%
Stewart B Lang Memorial Library	$14,796	2	9%
Waverly Free Library	$11,421	2	8%
Springport Free Library	$11,418	1	n/a
Aurora Free Library	$11,418	1	9%
Coburn Free Library	$7,928	1	5%
Powers Library	$6,418	1	5%
Spencer Library Association	$5,928	1	n/a

Finger Lakes Library System supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of Tompkins County IncNY53.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Nelson B Delavan Found Part a Xxxxx9000 · Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation · Ralph R Wilkins Foundation Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · 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.

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About Finger Lakes Library System

How much does Finger Lakes Library System give?: Finger Lakes Library System reported 16 grants totaling $90,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Finger Lakes Library System fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Membership Benefit (27%), Crime & Legal (22%).
Who are Finger Lakes Library System's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Tompkins County Public Library ($1.2M), Seymour Public Library District ($106k), Cortland Free Library ($103k).
Does Finger Lakes Library System fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Finger Lakes Library System?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc, Nelson B Delavan Found Part a Xxxxx9000, Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation.
Where is Finger Lakes Library System based?: Finger Lakes Library System is based in NY.