Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE
FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,790 to it, the largest being THE SNIDER FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Chester County Food Banklocal
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio match
- North Country 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
73% of FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE’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
FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
“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
66% of FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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.
- Chester County Food BanklocalPA · funds 108 organizations near you
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Country Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Argersinger Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montgomery Foundationportfolio 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE: 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE?
- FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,790 to it, the largest being THE SNIDER FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,790 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE?
- THE SNIDER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER COUNTY LIBRARY EXTON SQUARE 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 2funders 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