Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY
JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,460 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($148,368). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $622k
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Joseph T Simpson Public Library does
Mission
The joseph t. Simpson library is the community's library, responsive to needs and desires for knowledge, understanding, enrichment, entertainment, and connection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Serving a rapidly growing community in southcentral pennsylvania, the joseph t. Simpson public library serves as a vital community resource for learning and leisure. By providing access to an array of traditional and innovative public library services, simpson library improves the quality of life for over 156,000 visitors each year. In 2025, simpson library circulated 588,873 items to library cardholders and presented 2,722 programs for all ages with more than 44,000 people in attendance.
$1,044,737 spent$48,666 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,044,737.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.0M to $6.8M (+13%).
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 75% · 2018 73% · 2019 76% · 2020 64% · 2021 72% · 2022 69% · 2023 43% · 2024 65% · 2025 60%. 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 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 9 funders, grant income rose $21k → $187k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC 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
JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
58% 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 JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 72% · 2021 46% · 2022 47% · 2023 40% — 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
33% of JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
84% of JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC 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. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC 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 JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,460 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($148,368). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $622,460 in grants to JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $148,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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