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ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC
ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,553 to it, the largest being The Vineyard Family Foundation ($19,828). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared funders
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio match
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio match
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.
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 64% · 2018 62% · 2019 62% · 2020 70% · 2021 77% · 2022 75% · 2023 70% · 2024 69% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $5k → $4k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $37k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rowayton Civic Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON 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
ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 44% · 2019 67% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 42% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Country Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rochester Regional Library Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hurley-Trammell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC?
- ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,553 to it, the largest being The Vineyard Family Foundation ($19,828). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $36,553 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC?
- The Vineyard Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $19,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing