New York · Nonprofit
Adams Center Free Library
Adams Center Free Library (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,184 to it, the largest being NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM ($24,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $182k
What Adams Center Free Library does
Mission
Our mission is to open the door of knowledge, fun and adventure
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Operating expenses to provide free libraryservices and open the door of knowledge, fun andadventure
$86,052 spentof which $86,052 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,052.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $316k to $214k (−32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of Adams Center Free Library’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Adams Center Free Library’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Adams Center Free Library's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Adams Center Free Library has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Adams Center Free Library
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Adams Center Free Library: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Adams Center Free Library?
- Adams Center Free Library (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24,184 to it, the largest being NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM ($24,184). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Adams Center Free Library have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $24,184 in grants to Adams Center Free Library.
- Who is the largest funder of Adams Center Free Library?
- NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $24,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Adams Center Free Library find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing