New York · Nonprofit
CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY
CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,719 to it, the largest being NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM ($160,359). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Jefferson County Local Development Corporationlocal
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio match
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio match
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.
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 82% · 2018 81% · 2019 84% · 2020 59% · 2021 82% · 2022 85% · 2023 80% · 2024 81% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $24k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of CARTHAGE 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
CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 51% · 2019 98% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% — broadly stable.
“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
98% of CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY's grant income comes from New York 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Jefferson County Local Development CorporationlocalNY · funds 90 organizations near you
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Home for Aged Women Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ft & Anna C Manley Mem Tw Pfdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARTHAGE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY?
- CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,719 to it, the largest being NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM ($160,359). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $165,719 in grants to CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY?
- NORTH COUNTRY LIBRARY SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $160,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARTHAGE FREE LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing