Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BELLES LETTRES CLUB
BELLES LETTRES CLUB (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $499,148 to it, the largest being SUTTON GERTRUDE H - TR UW ($219,194). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $499k
- Net assets
- $171k
What Belles Lettres Club does
Mission
To support our public library and fine arts of the community of Oil City
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To support our public library and fine arts of the community of oil city and surrounding area by giving books and support to the library and money to a local scholarship fund
$104,000 spentof which $80,853 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $146k to $166k (+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.
93% of BELLES LETTRES CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $96k.
From the IRS filings of BELLES LETTRES CLUB’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
BELLES LETTRES CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 67% · 2019 38% · 2020 70% · 2021 48% · 2022 51% · 2023 29% — 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 BELLES LETTRES CLUB's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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 BELLES LETTRES CLUB's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
BELLES LETTRES CLUB has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BELLES LETTRES CLUB
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.
Public support
95%
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 BELLES LETTRES CLUB: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BELLES LETTRES CLUB?
- BELLES LETTRES CLUB (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $499,148 to it, the largest being SUTTON GERTRUDE H - TR UW ($219,194). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLES LETTRES CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $499,148 in grants to BELLES LETTRES CLUB, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLES LETTRES CLUB?
- SUTTON GERTRUDE H - TR UW is the largest funder on record, with $219,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLES LETTRES CLUB 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.
Play a game about who funds Belles Lettres Club →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing