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New York · Public charity

Owwl Library System

Support library services across ontario, wayne, wyoming, and livingston counties.

$261k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$186k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$16,098
Largest grant, FY2025
$23,643
Organizations funded a year
11 to 36
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Owwl Library System funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$186k0%
FY202423$368k0%
FY202311$161k0%
FY202226$346k8%
FY202011$146k0%
FY201916$216k0%
FY201836$485k11%
FY201732$446kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Geneva Public Library$234,4789n/a
Livonia Public Library$167,3029n/a
Wadsworth Library$161,60795%
Dansville Public Library$152,95594%
Mount Morris Library Association$149,768923%
Avon Free Library$128,82396%
Lima Public Library$123,5299n/a
Bell Memorial Library$112,250912%
Caledonia Library Association Inc$105,608913%
Wood Library Association$86,93482%
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All grantees of Owwl Library System by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Geneva Public Library$234,4789n/a
Livonia Public Library$167,3029n/a
Wadsworth Library$161,60795%
Dansville Public Library$152,95594%
Mount Morris Library Association$149,768923%
Avon Free Library$128,82396%
Lima Public Library$123,5299n/a
Bell Memorial Library$112,250912%
Caledonia Library Association Inc$105,608913%
Wood Library Association$86,93482%
Victor Farmington Library$78,29693%
Stevens Memorial$65,7336n/a
Macedon Public Library$59,51277%
Phelps Library$58,810312%
Williamson Public Library$52,2075n/a
Newark Public Library$50,6026n/a
Bristol Library$49,420340%
Perry Public Library$44,4813n/a
Palmyra Community Library$41,28643%
Walworth-Seely Public Library$40,51644%
Rose Free Library$39,941423%
Red Creek Free Library$38,460327%
Ontario Public Library$37,4535n/a
Honeoye Public Library$34,234215%
Clifton Springs Library$33,82538%
Lyons Public Library$30,44333%
Wolcott Public Library$28,92346%
Sodus Community Library$23,4333n/a
Warsaw Public Library$18,6383n/a
Gorham Free Library$15,25327%
Red Jacket Community Library$15,06724%
Marion Public Library$15,0272n/a
Bloomfield Public Library$15,0062n/a
Naples Library$12,0852n/a
Bloomfield Public Library$11,1653n/a
Clyde Savannah Public Library$7,61712%
Clyde-Savannah Public Library$7,3851n/a
Eagle Free Library$5,46319%

Where it is load-bearing

Owwl Library System supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWadsworth Library: $161,607 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetDansville Public Library: $152,955 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetMount Morris Library Association: $149,768 over 9y, 23% of budgetAvon Free Library: $128,823 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetBell Memorial Library: $112,250 over 9y, 12% of budgetCaledonia Library Association Inc: $105,608 over 9y, 13% of budgetWood Library Association: $86,934 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetVictor Farmington Library: $78,296 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetMacedon Public Library: $59,512 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetPhelps Library: $58,810 over 3y, 12% of budgetBristol Library: $49,420 over 3y, 40% of budgetPalmyra Community Library: $41,286 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetWalworth-Seely Public Library: $40,516 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetRose Free Library: $39,941 over 4y, 23% of budgetRed Creek Free Library: $38,460 over 3y, 27% of budgetHoneoye Public Library: $34,234 over 2y, 15% of budgetClifton Springs Library: $33,825 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetLyons Public Library: $30,443 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetWolcott Public Library: $28,923 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetGorham Free Library: $15,253 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetRed Jacket Community Library: $15,067 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetClyde Savannah Public Library: $7,617 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEagle Free Library: $5,463 over 1y, 9.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Friends and Foundatio…Rochester Area Commun…Amazonsmile Foundation
Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public LibraryNY30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library · Rochester Area Community Foundation · 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.

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About Owwl Library System

How much does Owwl Library System give?
Owwl Library System reported 13 itemized grants totaling $186,227, out of $261,218 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Owwl Library System fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Owwl Library System's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Geneva Public Library ($234k), Livonia Public Library ($167k), Wadsworth Library ($162k).
Does Owwl Library System fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Owwl Library System?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library, Rochester Area Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Owwl Library System based?
Owwl Library System 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 38 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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