Skip to content

New Jersey · Nonprofit

BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC

BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being THE MARY CURTIS HOROWITZ FOUNDATION ($3,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.4M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$1.8M
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bergen County Cooperative Library System Computer Consortium Inc does

Mission

The bergen county cooperative library system (bccls) facilitates a forward-thinking public library system through cost-effective resource sharing

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides a variety of services to its member libraries, including electronic collections, cataloging services, professional training, support for the integrated library system used by all libraries, among other services. Bccls supports approximately 670,000 cardholders across the four northern new jersey counties represented by libraries and circulates approximately 12 million items per year. Every year, about half a million items are added to bccls collections and cataloged by the bccls office. Bccls also supports and affirms the autonomy of all member libraries and their desire to meet the needs of their diverse communities in a wide variety of ways.

    $3,452,614 spentof which $56,000 as grants$3,863,031 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,452,614.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 97 ($3.3M) Expenses 81 ($3.0M) Net assets 478 ($338k)2019 Revenue 116 ($3.9M) Expenses 95 ($3.5M) Net assets 1020 ($720k)2020 Revenue 119 ($4.0M) Expenses 104 ($3.9M) Net assets 1245 ($879k)2021 Revenue 111 ($3.7M) Expenses 97 ($3.6M) Net assets 1437 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 116 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 1724 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 121 ($4.1M) Expenses 106 ($3.9M) Net assets 2024 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 125 ($4.2M) Expenses 115 ($4.3M) Net assets 1972 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 130 ($4.4M) Expenses 109 ($4.0M) Net assets 2500 ($1.8M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (130)Expenses (109)Net assets (2500)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $3.0M (+46%).

$782k
$1.0M
$1.4M
$2.2M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$3.0M
$2.7M
$3.1M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 9% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$336k
’17
$267k
’18
$383k
’19
$159k
’20
$136k
’21
$202k
’22
$171k
’23
−$37k
’24
$344k
’25
5.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

David Hanson

Executive director/ secretary

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed141312121212121212
Joined·+8+0+5+5+8+5+8+0
No longer listed·91558580
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM 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.

Where its funders are

100% of BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve5.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC

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 Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

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 BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC?
BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being THE MARY CURTIS HOROWITZ FOUNDATION ($3,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,500 in grants to BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC?
THE MARY CURTIS HOROWITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM COMPUTER CONSORTIUM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 1 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