New York · Nonprofit
AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY
AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,601 to it, the largest being MOHAWK VALLEY LIBRARY SYSTEM ($161,167). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $287k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Amsterdam Free Library does
Mission
Community education/entertainment
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Miscellaneous library operations and functions relatedto its primary exempt function.
$1,610,171 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,610,171.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.1M to $3.8M (+24%).
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 13% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 95% · 2021 84% · 2022 96% · 2023 38% · 2024 97% · 2025 88% · 2026 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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 narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $43k → $22k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 AMSTERDAM 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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 33% · 2019 41% · 2020 54% · 2021 51% · 2022 63% · 2023 54% — 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
43% of AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $469k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$469k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMSTERDAM 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.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 AMSTERDAM 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 AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY?
- AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,601 to it, the largest being MOHAWK VALLEY LIBRARY SYSTEM ($161,167). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $286,601 in grants to AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMSTERDAM FREE LIBRARY?
- MOHAWK VALLEY LIBRARY SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $161,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMSTERDAM 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing