Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,485 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY ($166,455). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $298k
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Bosler Memorial Library does
Mission
Form 990 - mission statement the Bosler Memorial Library is a leading intellectual, educational, recreational, and cultural asset in cumberland county. Founded in 1900, this public library serves the borough of carlisle, seven townships in cumberland county, the carlisle barracks (home of the u.s. Army war college), the cumberland county prison, and serves as the cumberland county law library. Its mission is to empower lifelong learning by meeting the community's needs through robust, high-quality, and diverse collections, programs, and services. In keeping with the library's mission, the Bosler Memorial Library provides opportunities for all people without restriction. The library celebrates the diversity of the members of the community it serves and strives to serve all memebers of the community equally. With more than 187,628 visits in 2025, the Bosler Memorial Library is one of the busiest libraries in cumberland county. It is a member of the cumberland county library system, which
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The library offers free internet computers that allow users to access online resources as well as computer software. The library also offers free wifi access. In 2025, the internet computers were used nearly 11,000 times, and the wifi was used more than 11,000 times. In 2025, more than 5,200 adults attended 400 programs provided by the Bosler Memorial Library on a wide range of topics that offered participants active lifelong learning experiences. These experiences empowered participants to be engaged and knowledgeable citizens of their community. In addition, the library provides meeting room space, small group study room space, and tutoring room space for use by the public. In 2025, these spaces were used by nearly 5,000 people. The library has also begun expanding its outreach to the community, recognizing that going out into the community is an important component of service. In 2025, the library provided more than 250 outreach programs attended by more than 4,600 people.
$768,383 spent$31,119 earned by the program45% of program spendingThe library's information services department assists patrons with directional, informational, and research questions through in-person, over-the-phone, postal, and online interactions. The information services staff provide direct assistance with topics that include job/career searching, job skill development, continuing education/higher education coursework, health, finance, business, social services/resource identification, and more. The staff also provide proctoring for students in distance education learning programs. Librarians use a variety of resources to answer questions including the library's collections, the internet, subscription databases, e-books, computer software, and computer hardware. They also produce instructional materials such as bibliographies, pathfinders, and "how-to" guides for the public. The information services librarians also promote library resources through displays and printed materials. The information services staff participate in the collection development process of selecting materials for the library's collection. When desired materials are not available in the library's collection, the information services staff provide interlibrary load…
$530,913 spent31% of program spendingThe library makes it a priority to ensure that all children enter kindergarten with the language, cognitive, and early reading skills needed for success in school. The library provides collections, programs, and services that are designed to meet the educational, developmental and socio-emotional needs of children at all ages and uses both state and national standards, benchmarks, and practices to conform the design and implementation of these collections, programs, and services. The youth services department provides quality learning and engagement experiences for families of children of all ages. Collections, programs, and services are provided that support infants, toddlers, preschoolers, early elementary age, tweens, and teens. The youth services department offers preschool/early elementary age children access to specialized computers that engage them in a cross-curricular set of software packages that are fun and educational. These programs are benchmarked to the national learning standards to ensure high quality learning experience while encouraging technology skill development. In 2025, these awe early learning computer stations were used by children more than 10,000 times.…
$417,760 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,717,056.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.8M to $8.4M (+7%).
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 59% · 2019 60% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% · 2024 54% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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 broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $22k → $36k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BOSLER MEMORIAL 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
BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 82% · 2020 70% · 2021 56% · 2022 56% · 2023 46% — 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 BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
80% of BOSLER MEMORIAL 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. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like BOSLER MEMORIAL 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of the Bosler Library · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,485 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY ($166,455). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $298,485 in grants to BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- UNITED WAY OF CARLISLE & CUMBERLAND COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $166,455 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSLER MEMORIAL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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