Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY
BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,185 to it, the largest being THE REIDLER FOUNDATION ($379,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Bethlehem Area Public Library does
Mission
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. Services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024, the Bethlehem Area Public Library successfully supplied the citizens of the city of bethlehem, bethlehem township, borough of fountain hill, and hanover township with library materials including books, periodicals, electronic resources, dvds, books on tape, books on cd, audio cds, and playaways (mp3 players loaded with spoken books) for informational, cultural, recreational, and educational purposes.the administration, circulation, and technical services departments are involved in many library activities. Responsibilities include all the procedures involved in the circulation and housing of library materials; maintenance of patron records; purchasing of supplies, equipment and furniture; library-wide publicity and promotion; fundraising; book sales and other special events; coordination of volunteers; bookmobile services; building renovations; repair and maintenance of library buildings and vehicles; deliveries to the branch and district libraries; and various other general administrative duties. The district consultant is designated by commonwealth libraries as being the liaison for the bethlehem library district with its three other designated libraries - the…
$2,947,428 spent$946,798 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,947,428.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $1.8M (−22%).
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 62% · 2018 54% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 56% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of BETHLEHEM AREA 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. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Joshua Berk
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $48k → $49k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 BETHLEHEM AREA 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
BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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% · 2019 99% · 2020 94% · 2021 75% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — 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
40% of BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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 BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BETHLEHEM AREA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHLEHEM AREA 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 BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,185 to it, the largest being THE REIDLER FOUNDATION ($379,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $440,185 in grants to BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- THE REIDLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $379,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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