Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY
BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $872,147 to it, the largest being HAMILTON G DISBROW JR TD DTD 91100 FBO ($769,206). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $872k
- Net assets
- $27M
What Bucks County Free Library does
Mission
To provide materials and services to stimulate the imagination of all library users with programs and materials for pleasurable reading, viewing and listening experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Library programs - to provide library service, books, databases, and audio/visual products to the patrons of bucks county. The library also receives donated facilities. These goods and services are recorded at their estimated fair value at the time of receipt. The county of bucks provides seven library sites free of rent charges. The corresponding in-kind contributions received for the year ended december 31, 2025 reflected in these financial statements consisted of 529,000 in donated facilities.
$8,554,433 spentof which $511,119 as grants$403,627 earned by the program93% of program spendingTechnology services - to provide computer and various technology services to the public
$654,010 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,208,443.
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 $24M to $28M (+15%).
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 87% · 2018 83% · 2019 86% · 2020 87% · 2021 86% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% · 2024 86% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Dana Barber
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $100 → $209k.
5 of 21 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 BUCKS COUNTY FREE 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
BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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
55% of BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 BUCKS COUNTY FREE 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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
- Bucks County · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUCKS COUNTY FREE 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 BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY?
- BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $872,147 to it, the largest being HAMILTON G DISBROW JR TD DTD 91100 FBO ($769,206). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $872,147 in grants to BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY?
- HAMILTON G DISBROW JR TD DTD 91100 FBO is the largest funder on record, with $769,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUCKS COUNTY FREE 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.
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 21 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