Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY
BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,500 to it, the largest being TR UW G GORHAM PETERS 7550-XXXXXX07373 ($215,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $301k
- Net assets
- $25M
What Boston Medical Library does
Mission
The Boston Medical Library is a physicians non-profit organization incorporated in 1877. The bml mission, revised in 2004, is "to be a library for the dissemination of medical knowledge, the promotion of medical eduation and scholarship, and the preservation and celebration of medical history, and thereby to advance the quality of health and healthcare of the people." the Boston Medical Library is to support and operate for the benefit of the massachusetts medical society. The Boston Medical Library serves as a resource for the medical school faculties and medical students of harvard medical school, boston university medical school, tufts university school of medicine and the university of massachusetts medical school; practicing physicians and dentists. In 1946, the Boston Medical Library formally became the library for the massachusetts medical society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Maintenance of library of medicine and allied sciences, the promotion and advancement of medical science and medical education, and the celebration of medical history
$596,594 spentof which $1,000 as grants$4,850 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $596,594.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21M to $26M (+24%).
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.
5% of BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 held at 2 funders, grant income rose $19k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of BOSTON MEDICAL 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
BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 81% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 81% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY's grant income comes from Massachusetts 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
BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BOSTON MEDICAL 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Massachusetts Medical Society · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOSTON MEDICAL 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 BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY?
- BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,500 to it, the largest being TR UW G GORHAM PETERS 7550-XXXXXX07373 ($215,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $300,500 in grants to BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY?
- TR UW G GORHAM PETERS 7550-XXXXXX07373 is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON MEDICAL LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 3 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing