How much does North Country Library System give?

North Country Library System reported 16 itemized grants totaling $309,810, out of $566,019 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does North Country Library System fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).

Who are North Country Library System's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Roswell P Flower Memorial Library ($482k), Sally Ploof Hunter Memorial Library ($265k), Evans Mills Public Library Corp ($173k).

Does North Country Library System fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as North Country Library System?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northern New York Community Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is North Country Library System based?

North Country Library System is based in NY.

North Country Library System

North Country Library System at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$566k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$59k

Largest

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 2025.

Education$2.1M

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 16 grants below total $309,810, the rows itemized in this filing. The $566,019 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $256,209 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k14 grants · $242k
$50k–250k1 grant · $59k

$16,221

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 19 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+12%

Still filing today

68%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

RP
ROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
9× · 2017–2025 · $482k · revenue +170% · 79% of their budget
SP
SALLY PLOOF HUNTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +31% · 28% of their budget
CF
CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY
8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +9%

Funded once

CV
CONSTABLEVILLE VILLAGE LIBRARY
one grant, 2024 · $47k
AC
Adams Center Free Library
one grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue +12%
HL
Hepburn Library of Madrid
one grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue -26%

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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Field Memorial Library

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New Ipswich Library

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William B Ogden Free Library

To provide library services to local area residents.

Education

Simsbury Free Library

Education

Morris Plains Library Association

Public Library providing books and computer network to the public

Education

Monessen Public Library

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.

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Odell Nebraska Public Library

Education

Quechee Library Association

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.

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Dolgeville Manheim Public Library

public library

Education

Riverton Free Library Association

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Mountain Lakes Free 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

Education

Stamford Library

To make books, publications and electronic materials available to the public

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carthage Free Library; 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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,268,354Education$820,140

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

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.

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.

Northern New York Community Foundation IncNY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · 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 North Country Library System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Country Library System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report 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, FY20–25

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home