Maine · Nonprofit
AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY
AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,235 to it, the largest being THE O'LEARY FOUNDATION BESSEMER TRUST CO FL TRUSTEE ($39,613). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Auburn Public Library does
Mission
Auburn Public Library brings people, resources and ideas together toengage, enlighten and enrich the community. Auburn Public Library'sgoals are to help customers of all generations learn, grow, and havefun; prepare children to start school ready to learn; foster an organizational and community culture of innovation; promote community workforce and economic development; broaden and strengthen community connections; maintain facilities, resources, and systems; and ensurestable and dependable funding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The library is a community information resource center that lendsbooks, e-books, audiobooks, and other media to the general public. Thelibrary also provides resources and activities for a children's center,a teen space, small business services, reference and research services,and as space for community events, lectures, book clubs, seminars, andother programs in alignment with its mission. The major sources ofrevenue are through appropriations from the city of auburn, income fromendowments, grants, and individual and corporate donations.
$1,216,569 spent$267,186 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,216,569.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.2M to $6.0M (+14%).
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 77% · 2018 78% · 2019 82% · 2020 91% · 2021 85% · 2022 78% · 2023 66% · 2024 73% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $29.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 AUBURN 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
AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AUBURN 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 AUBURN 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 AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,235 to it, the largest being THE O'LEARY FOUNDATION BESSEMER TRUST CO FL TRUSTEE ($39,613). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $55,235 in grants to AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- THE O'LEARY FOUNDATION BESSEMER TRUST CO FL TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $39,613 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 6 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