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BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY

BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,444 to it, the largest being CLAIR H KINNEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND 004954 ($84,213). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$384k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$393k
Net assets
$3.7M
11/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Bloomsburg Public Library does

Mission

To inspire minds, enrich lives, and celebrate community. The Bloomsburg Public Library provides free access to resources for life-long learning and personal entertaiment, as well as providing access to the internet with free public computers and a mobile hotspot.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The library maintains a collection of more than 40,000 books, audiobooks, and dvds as well as online resources for patrons at no cost. These resources are for all ages and circulate for two weeks, with a two week renewal. Library staff select newly published items for purchase and review donations for items to add to the collection. They are then cataloged and placed on shelves for patrons to borrow. The library shares a catalog system with two partner libraries, with more than 100,000 physical items to borrow. Interlibrary loan service is available for items not owned by the library.

    $292,811 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. The library functions as a commmunity center with more than 20 programs every week for people of all ages, including early literacy storytimes, book clubs, civic conversations, teen library club, dungeons and dragons, gaming club, and recreational clubs for bridge, chess, mahjong, pinochle, and other such activities. There are two computer labs that allow free public access to the internet and commonly used office software and video game systems. Several gathering spaces are availabe for use by community groups and nonprofit organizations.

    $126,598 spent
    30% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $419,409.

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 ($330k) Expenses 100 ($365k) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 101 ($334k) Expenses 102 ($373k) Net assets 94 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 101 ($334k) Expenses 98 ($359k) Net assets 99 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 110 ($363k) Expenses 102 ($373k) Net assets 102 ($3.7M)2021 Revenue 138 ($456k) Expenses 106 ($388k) Net assets 114 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 77 ($255k) Expenses 133 ($484k) Net assets 94 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 126 ($415k) Expenses 119 ($436k) Net assets 94 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 116 ($384k) Expenses 142 ($519k) Net assets 104 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (142)Net assets (104)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 2021 to 2022, from $4.2M to $3.5M (−17%).

$3.7M
$3.5M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$4.2M
$3.5M
$3.5M
$3.8M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 25% · 2019 26% · 2020 47% · 2021 25% · 2022 84% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$35k
’17
−$39k
’18
−$25k
’19
−$9k
’20
$68k
’21
−$229k
’22
−$20k
’23
−$135k
’24
2.4
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.

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Listed1213151516151412
Joined·+2+5+8+4+1+4+1
No longer listed·1383253
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $51k → $15k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 BLOOMSBURG 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

BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY.

21%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 42% · 2019 41% · 2020 45% · 2021 31% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.

“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

90% of BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 16%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY?
BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,444 to it, the largest being CLAIR H KINNEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND 004954 ($84,213). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $393,444 in grants to BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY?
CLAIR H KINNEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND 004954 is the largest funder on record, with $84,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLOOMSBURG 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 14 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