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Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library

The mission of the FRIENDS OF THE TOMPKINS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY is to support high-quality library resources for everyone in tompkins county by promoting reading by placing more books in more hands, raising funds through book sales and other activities, awarding grants to libraries and community organizations, advocating for library…

$315k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$294k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$243,909
Largest grant, FY2024
$243,909
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library 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.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$294k0%
FY20232$448k0%
FY20222$280k0%
FY20211$215k0%
FY20201$237k0%
FY20192$374k0%
FY20182$368kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2M

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tompkins County Public Library$1,884,1517n/a
Finger Lakes Library System$331,50054%

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About Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library

How much does Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library give?
Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library reported 2 itemized grants totaling $293,909, out of $314,946 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Tompkins County Public Library ($1.9M), Finger Lakes Library System ($332k).
Does Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library based?
Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library is based in NY.

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 2 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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