Connecticut · Nonprofit
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,818,351 to it, the largest being MJPM Foundation ($500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $716k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Hotchkiss Library of Sharon Inc does
Mission
Public Library
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides a free lending library of current and classical literature, periodicals, video and audio materials, and electronic resources; children's programs including preschool and summer reading activities; access to the State wide interlibrary lending program for materials not in the Library's collection; large-print books and audio recordings for the sight impaired; basic reference materials and a significant collection of local genealogical and historical books and documents; an expanding series of programs for adults including lectures, the annual book signing and book sale and small group sessions including evenings with authors and book reviews; computer access to the internet for its patrons.
$487,743 spent$1,395 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $487,743.
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.
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 $2.9M to $5.5M (+87%).
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 24% · 2018 17% · 2019 29% · 2020 20% · 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 22% · 2024 17% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $22k → $259k.
10 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% 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 HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 52% · 2019 55% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 45% · 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $661k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC?
- HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,818,351 to it, the largest being MJPM Foundation ($500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,818,351 in grants to HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC?
- MJPM Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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