New York · Nonprofit
Cheney Library
Cheney Library (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being WEIR FOR HOOSICK FALLS 51 ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $802k
What Cheney Library does
Mission
To provide library services to the community; services include book lending, inter-library loans, other media, internet access, and educational programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Library provides usual and customary lending privileges to a population of approximately 8,000, including a reading room, reference and research information for the public.
$120,996 spent$180,233 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $120,996.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $786k to $820k (+4%).
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: 2020 81% · 2021 77% · 2022 77% · 2023 70% · 2024 68% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of Cheney 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
Cheney Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 67% — 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
Cheney Library draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like Cheney 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Cheney 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 Cheney Library?
- Cheney Library (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being WEIR FOR HOOSICK FALLS 51 ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cheney Library have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,000 in grants to Cheney Library, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cheney Library?
- WEIR FOR HOOSICK FALLS 51 is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cheney 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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