· Public charity
Owwl Library System
Support library services across ontario, wayne, wyoming, and livingston counties.
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 13 grants below total $186,227 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $261,218 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,991 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 $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $23,643 |
| MOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY | $17,551 |
| WADSWORTH LIBRARY | $17,108 |
| DANSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $17,089 |
| LIVONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $17,082 |
| CALEDONIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $16,326 |
| AVON FREE LIBRARY | $16,098 |
| LIMA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,567 |
| BELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $14,557 |
| CANANDAIGUA - WOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $11,039 |
| VICTOR FARMINGTON LIBRARY | $8,324 |
| MACEDON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,936 |
| BLOOMFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,907 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +41% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WLWADSWORTH LIBRARY9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +41%
- DPDansville Public Library9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +15%
- MMMOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CSClyde Savannah Public Libraryone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -3%
- CPCLYDE-SAVANNAH PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $7k
- EFEAGLE FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -12%
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.
The mission of the Mountain Lakes Free Public Library is to provide free access to books, periodicals, magazines, audio, video, digital and internet media
Public Library providing books and computer network to the public
To provide library services to local area residents.
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.
The mission of the Parkesburg Free Library is to provide the Parkesburg Borough and surrounding communities with book materials and information necessary for personal growth and life long learning. We seek to guide community and business…
To provide the highest quality informational, educational, cultural and recreational resources and services to residents of all ages in the lake county public.
The tupper lake library is a source of information for 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lyons Public Library and the most unlike its peers is Eagle 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 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 WADSWORTH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Dansville Public Library ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AVON FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CALEDONIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VICTOR FARMINGTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MACEDON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PHELPS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Bristol Library ↗
- Who funds Palmyra Community Library ↗
- Who funds Walworth-Seely Public Library ↗
- Who funds ROSE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds RED CREEK FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Honeoye Public Library ↗
- Who funds Clifton Springs Library ↗
- Who funds LYONS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOLCOTT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GORHAM FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds RED JACKET COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Clyde Savannah Public Library ↗
- Who funds EAGLE 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: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library · Rochester Area Community Foundation · 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 Owwl 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.