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Owwl Library System

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

$261k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$24k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.4M
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $186,227, the rows itemized in this filing. The $261,218 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,991 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 $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
$16,098
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIMA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $18k → 11%MACEDON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $21k → 11%STEVENS MEMORIAL: $24k → 12%HONEOYE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20k → 10%STEVENS MEMORIAL COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $18k → 12%CLIFTON SPRINGS LIBRARY: $22k → 10%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $70k → 10%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32k → 10%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $23k → 11%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $26k → 10%AVON FREE LIBRARY: $18k → 11%PERRY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $33k → 12%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $24k → 10%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $23k → 11%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22k → 10%AVON FREE LIBRARY: $17k → 11%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $21k → 10%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $22k → 11%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20k → 10%AVON FREE LIBRARY: $17k → 11%GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20k → 10%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $21k → 11%PHELPS LIBRARY: $27k → 10%PHELPS LIBRARY: $17k → 10%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $20k → 11%WILLIAMSON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23k → 11%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $19k → 11%BRISTOL LIBRARY: $32k → 10%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $18k → 11%WOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $21k → 10%WOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $18k → 10%WADSWORTH LIBRARY: $17k → 11%LIVONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $47k → 11%LIVONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $21k → 11%LIVONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19k → 11%LIVONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19k → 11%ROSE FREE LIBRARY: $20k → 11%DANSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $24k → 11%DANSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23k → 11%DANSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20k → 11%DANSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $19k → 11%RED CREEK FREE LIBRARY: $26k → 11%MOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY: $39k → 11%MOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY: $19k → 11%MOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY: $18k → 11%MOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY: $18k → 11%BELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $18k → 11%BELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $18k → 11%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 35 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
3

Total granted

$2.3M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-3%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
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

  • WL
    WADSWORTH LIBRARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +41%
  • DP
    Dansville Public Library
    9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +15%
  • MM
    MOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CS
    Clyde Savannah Public Library
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -3%
  • CP
    CLYDE-SAVANNAH PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • EF
    EAGLE FREE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -12%
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
New Ipswich Library
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2
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
3
Morris Plains Library Association

Public Library providing books and computer network to the public

Education
4
William B Ogden Free Library

To provide library services to local area residents.

Education
5
Riverton Free Library Association
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6
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
7
Simsbury Free Library
Education
8
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.

—
9
Parkesburg Free Library

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…

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10
Lake County Public Library

To provide the highest quality informational, educational, cultural and recreational resources and services to residents of all ages in the lake county public.

Education
11
Tupper Lake Public Library

The tupper lake library is a source of information for the public

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lyons Public Library; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 38 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $234,478 · OtherGENEVA PUBLIC LIBRARYLIVONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $167,302 · OtherLIVONIA PUBLIC LIBRARYMOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $149,768 · OtherMOUNT MORRIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONAVON FREE LIBRARY: $128,823 · OtherAVON FREE LIBRARYLIMA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $123,529 · OtherLIMA PUBLIC LIBRARYBELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $112,250 · OtherBELL MEMORIAL LIBRARYCALEDONIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $105,608 · OtherCALEDONIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INCWOOD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $86,934 · OtherVICTOR FARMINGTON LIBRARY: $78,296 · OtherSTEVENS MEMORIAL: $65,733 · Other+18 more: $596,782 · Other+18 moreWADSWORTH LIBRARY: $161,607 · EducationWADSWORTH LIBRARYDansville Public Library: $152,955 · EducationDansville Public LibraryPalmyra Community Library: $41,286 · EducationPalmyra Community Librar…Walworth-Seely Public Library: $40,516 · EducationWalworth-Seely Public Li…Clifton Springs Library: $33,825 · EducationClifton Springs LibraryLYONS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $30,443 · EducationLYONS PUBLIC LIBRARY+4 more: $43,400 · Education+4 more
Other$1,849,503Education$504,032

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

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Owwl Library System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Owwl Library System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report 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.

    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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