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COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION

COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,600 to it, the largest being RHEINSTROM HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($23,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$115k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
$60k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Columbia County Libraries Association does

Mission

The Columbia County Libraries Association supports public library services to all residents of Columbia County, NY, by supporting the 11 public, association, and school district libraries in Columbia County, and by working together.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Purchase of shared databases, subscriptions, and museum passes for use by the 61,570 residents of Columbia County, NY.

    $30,343 spent
    53% of program spending
  2. Joint programs, and outreach, held for benefit of all 61,570 residents of Columbia County, NY.

    $14,093 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. Base grants to the 11 public, association, and school district libraries in Columbia County, NY, to support library services to the 61,570 residents of Columbia County.

    $13,200 spentof which $13,200 as grants
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,636.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($88k) Expenses 100 ($87k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2023 Revenue 98 ($86k) Expenses 101 ($88k) Net assets 94 ($38k)2024 Revenue 105 ($92k) Expenses 105 ($92k) Net assets 94 ($38k)2025 Revenue 131 ($115k) Expenses 106 ($93k) Net assets 148 ($60k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (131)Expenses (106)Net assets (148)Peer revenue range

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 $38k to $60k (+58%).

$41k
$38k
$38k
$60k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$355
’22
−$2k
’23
−$150
’24
$22k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION’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

COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

50% 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

50% of COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION: 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION?
COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,600 to it, the largest being RHEINSTROM HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($23,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,600 in grants to COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION?
RHEINSTROM HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION 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 2022–2025), 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