· Public charity
North Country Library System
The NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM is governed by the education law and other laws of nys and provides library services to the general public through its member libraries located in jefferson county, lewis county, st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $309,810 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $566,019 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $256,209 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $59,060 |
| SALLY PLOOF HUNTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $31,246 |
| CENTRAL SQUARE LIBRARY | $26,529 |
| EVANS MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $23,889 |
| OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICT PUBLIC LIB | $20,530 |
| CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY | $19,402 |
| HANNIBAL FREE LIBRARY | $18,529 |
| FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $16,221 |
| OGDENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY | $14,772 |
| ELLISBURG FREE LIBRARY | $13,238 |
| PARISH PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,204 |
| ANNIE P AINSWORTH MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $11,529 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN LIBRARY | $11,529 |
| PHOENIX PUBLIC LIBRARY | $11,529 |
| LOWVILLE FREE LIBRARY | $10,734 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RPROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $482k · revenue +170% · 79% of their budget
- SPSALLY PLOOF HUNTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +31% · 28% of their budget
- CFCARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CVCONSTABLEVILLE VILLAGE LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $47k
- ACAdams Center Free Libraryone grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue +12%
- HLHepburn Library of Madridone grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue -26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide library services to local area residents.
Public Library providing books and computer network to the public
Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.
The Quechee Library serves as a public library and freely provides access and materials for information, lifelong learning, entertainment, and reflection, as well as programs to foster community and engagement.
public library
The mission of the Mountain Lakes Free Public Library is to provide free access to books, periodicals, magazines, audio, video, digital and internet media
To make books, publications and electronic materials available to the public
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carthage Free Library and the most unlike its peers is Lyme Free Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SALLY PLOOF HUNTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Lowville Free Library ↗
- Who funds OGDENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Central Square Library ↗
- Who funds CROGHAN FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MACSHERRY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Adams Center Free Library ↗
- Who funds Hepburn Library of Madrid ↗
- Who funds MEXICO PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Bodman Memorial Library ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM H BUSH MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ADAMS FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds POTSDAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CROSBY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LYME FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HAWN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DEXTER FREE LIBRARY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization North Country Library System funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.