Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY
JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,227,539 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($553,863). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $14M
What James V Brown Library does
Mission
A free public library located in williamsport, pa, the library maintains and improves the quality of life for all citizens of our community by providing resources that enhance and contribute to individual knowledge, enlightenment, and enjoyment.we especially recognize our responsibility to serve as a place for children to discover the joy of reading and the value of libraries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The library was open to the public 56 hours each week and was the place to go for 118,123 citizens who visited our library in person and 99,064 who visited us online. The library provided access to 248,246 items in its collection, including in-house and outreach collections, for use by the public at no charge. These items were borrowed 340,875 times. The library's public internet access computers and public wi-fi was used 97,245 times; electronic content was accessed 47,887 times.the library offered 648 in person adult and children's programs in which 14,827 citizens attended. The library offered 10 virtual programs that reached 13 people.continued on schedule o.as the north central library district center, the james v. Brown library provided resources and equipment for the 40 public libraries that it serves in the district as well as maintenance of the member library websites.
$1,606,791 spent$139,235 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,606,791.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $14M (+11%).
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 74% · 2018 85% · 2019 65% · 2020 72% · 2021 64% · 2022 66% · 2023 70% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Amy Resh
CEO & director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $60k → $146k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $93k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lycoming County Library System Board). These are real filings, and they are not money JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY raised.
From the IRS filings of JAMES V BROWN 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
JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 48% · 2019 84% · 2020 45% · 2021 46% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — 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
88% of JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
53% of JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $554k 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.
Government funding JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record.
- Department of Justice$53k
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 JAMES V BROWN 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lycoming County Library System Board · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAMES V BROWN 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 JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY?
- JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,227,539 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($553,863). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,227,539 in grants to JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY?
- FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $553,863 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES V BROWN LIBRARY 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 12 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