Connecticut · Nonprofit
HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,510 to it, the largest being G WHITTEMORE TR FBO H WHITTEMORE LIBRARY ($528,176). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $757k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $543k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Howard Whittemore Memorial Library does
Mission
The Howard Whittemore Memorial Library is a non-profit library dedicated to providing the residents of naugatuck with free and reliable access to books and other information resources, as well as educational, cultural and entertaining programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide library services to the general public of the naugatuck connecticut community
$798,379 spent$5,951 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $798,379.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $8.1M to $9.8M (+21%).
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 77% · 2021 72% · 2022 77% · 2023 74% · 2024 75% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Robert Delagrange
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $145k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL 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
HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
98% 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 HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY is better cushioned 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
Government funding HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93k on record.
- State Aid Grants$93k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL 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 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
82%
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 HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL 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 HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $542,510 to it, the largest being G WHITTEMORE TR FBO H WHITTEMORE LIBRARY ($528,176). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $542,510 in grants to HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- G WHITTEMORE TR FBO H WHITTEMORE LIBRARY is the largest funder on record, with $528,176 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOWARD WHITTEMORE MEMORIAL LIBRARY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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