Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC
ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,847,300 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($707,733). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Adams County Library System Inc does
Mission
The mission of the adams county library system (acls) is to connect people to opportunities that enrich their lives through the core values of stewardship, excellence and trustworthiness. The acls provides programming that centers on early literacy skills as well as creative education for children and teens. Events feature hands-on- activities, entertainment and learning activities. Summer programs are offered inspiring children to read and learn year-round. Services for adults include access to resources that foster learning, promote personal growth and cultivate community connections. Adult programs create educational and recreational opportunities for young adults through seniors. In 2025, pa forward awarded acls a gold level rating (the highest rating) for library programming. The six acls facilities are located throughout adams county so that library service is decentralized. A library is located in each of the six adams county school district areas making local library services a
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The adams county library system (acls)provides library facilities and services in six locations serving the 108,033 adams county residents. The acls is dedicated to connecting people to opportunities that will enrich their lives through free access to materials, technology and educational and entertaining programs. The system headquarters in gettysburg provides materials, technology and all other support services to the branch libraries located in biglerville, carroll valley, east berlin, littlestown and new oxford. As a free public library, the adams county library system provides a physical and digital collection of over 189,000 items including physical books, dvds and books on cds, as well as electronic books, eaudio books and streamable movies and tv shows. Our collection also includes games, tools, puzzles, sporting goods, art and craft kits and various other household items that may be borrowed. Assistance from professional staff is available to all ages including help to access reliable information and readers' advisory services. Technology in the form of subscription data bases, access to the internet through public access computers and free public wireless access and a…
$2,496,922 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,496,922.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8.6M to $12M (+45%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 68% · 2018 68% · 2019 59% · 2020 53% · 2021 68% · 2022 63% · 2023 67% · 2024 55% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $153k → $194k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 37% · 2019 27% · 2020 34% · 2021 45% · 2022 53% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $741k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC: 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 COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC?
- ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,847,300 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($707,733). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,847,300 in grants to ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC?
- ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $707,733 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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