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Northern New York Library Network at a glance

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Northern New York Library Network

The NORTHERN NEW YORK LIBRARY NETWORK is a regional non-profit multi-type library agency dedicated to distributing resources and services among its members in the 10,636 square mile, seven-county area known as the north country.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$92kEducation$89kHealth$8k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $36,818, the rows itemized in this filing. The $63,837 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,019 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
$11,733
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LAWRENCE CENTER FOR HISTORY & CULTURE$12,000
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$11,733
SUNY POTSDAM LIBRARY$7,085
CANTON FREE LIBRARY$6,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%JOHN BROWN LIVES: $7k → 13%NORTH COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $8k → 14%HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $12k → 16%OSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 17%ST LAWRENCE CENTER FOR HISTORY & CULTURE: $12k → 18%TICONDEROGA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7k → 13%ROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $8k → 14%HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $10k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 18%KEENE VALLEY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 13%NORTH COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $8k → 14%HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $8k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 18%HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $5k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 18%GOFF NELSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $10k → 16%ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%CANTON FREE LIBRARY: $10k → 18%CANTON FREE LIBRARY: $6k → 18%ST LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 18%SUNY POTSDAM LIBRARY: $7k → 18%FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM: $7k → 18%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 5 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$128k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +3%
  • HS
    HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +158%
  • SL
    ST LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TL
    TUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -22%
  • OC
    OSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +207%
  • RP
    ROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +25%
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.

1
Cazenovia Public Library Society Inc

Public library, museum and local history archives

Education
2
Historical Society of Saratoga Springs

Preservation & maintenance collection

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3
Gardiner Library Board of Trustees

The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.

Education
4
Lagrange Association Library

To provide a full service library for the town of lagrange, ny and the surrounding communities

Education
5
Lyons Public Library

Provide library materials and services to residents of lyons, ny and the surrounding area.

Education
6
Friends of the Saratoga Springs Public Library Inc

Support saratoga springs public library operations

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7
Roseau County Historical Society

Operation of roseau county museum along with acquisition, maintenance, preservation, and display of other items of historic interest to the county of roseau

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8
Fulton County Historical Society

Museum provides general public with displays and information about the history of Fulton County New York.

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9
Schoharie Free Library Assocation

Library Association To help patrons obtain information that meets their personal, educational and professional needs.

Education
10
Norwood Public Library

The mission of the norwood public library is to assure effective, expanding free library services for the residents of the library district through educational, informational, and cultural resources and activities.

Education
11
Lowville Free Library

The purpose of the Library is to provide literary/computer resources & Services for Lewis County Residents and surrounding Communities for educational purposes

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12
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Country Library System; the most unlike its peers is Tupper Lake Public 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

13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $44,455 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYCANTON FREE LIBRARY: $15,500 · EducationCANTON FREE LIBRARYTUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationTUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARYROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $7,904 · EducationROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARYPOTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,085 · EducationPOTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCKeene Valley Library Association: $5,500 · EducationKeene Valley Library AssociationHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $35,047 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC SARANAC LAKEOSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,640 · Arts & CultureOSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYFREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM: $7,210 · Arts & CultureFREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUMJOHN BROWN LIVES INC: $6,853 · Arts & CultureJOHN BROWN LIVES INCST LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $17,000 · OtherST LAWRENCE COUNTY HIST…NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $15,971 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY S…THE LOWER ADIRONDACK REGIONAL CENTER FOR HISTORY: $6,525 · OtherTHE LOWER ADIRONDACK RE…
Education$90,444Arts & Culture$58,750Other$39,496

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $44,455 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE: $35,047 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetST LAWRENCE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $15,971 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANTON FREE LIBRARY: $15,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTUPPER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOSWEGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,640 over 1y, 16% of budgetROSWELL P FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $7,904 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM: $7,210 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPOTSDAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,085 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN BROWN LIVES INC: $6,853 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LOWER ADIRONDACK REGIONAL CENTER FOR HISTORY: $6,525 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetKeene Valley Library Association: $5,500 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

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 Com…The William G Pomeroy…Adirondack FoundationCorning Incorporated …JM McDonald Foundatio…Amazonsmile Foundation
Northern New York Community Foundation IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · The William G Pomeroy Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · JM McDonald 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 Northern New York Library Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern New York Library Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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