Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON
CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,575 to it, the largest being SWART DAVID H MEMORIAL FUND ($496,960). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $735k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Citizens Library Association of Washington does
Mission
Our mission at citizens library is to provide the resources to enrich, inform, and educate the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of a free public library for the washington county, pennsylvania communities.
$598,423 spent$19,558 earned by the program63% of program spendingProvide distribution services and other district services to community libraries in washington county.
$351,654 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $950,077.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.1M to $4.3M (−16%).
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 75% · 2018 56% · 2019 56% · 2020 77% · 2021 63% · 2022 78% · 2023 73% · 2024 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Diane Ambrose
Exec. Dir.
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $83k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON’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
CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 57% · 2020 87% · 2021 66% · 2022 92% · 2023 58% — 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
91% of CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k 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 CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON: 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 CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON?
- CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,575 to it, the largest being SWART DAVID H MEMORIAL FUND ($496,960). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $734,575 in grants to CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON?
- SWART DAVID H MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $496,960 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZENS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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