Vermont · Nonprofit
ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY
ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,000 to it, the largest being THE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL AND SMALL LIBRARIES ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Arvin a Brown Public Library does
Mission
To operate public library
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To operate public library providing books, magazines and reference material for use by the public.
$81,096 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,096.
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 $153k to $247k (+61%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Debra Atherton
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC 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
ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
“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.
Where its funders are
ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 2 states in all.
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.
Government funding ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.
- Grants to Municipalities$6k
- Grants$454
- Books&Periodicals-Library/Educ$359
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 ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC 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 ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,000 to it, the largest being THE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL AND SMALL LIBRARIES ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,000 in grants to ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
- Who is the largest funder of ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- THE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL AND SMALL LIBRARIES is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARVIN A BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2 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