Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
KENNETT LIBRARY
KENNETT LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,339,918 to it, the largest being Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation ($1,026,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Kennett Library does
Mission
Kennett Library is a regional public library open to all and serving the townships of kennett, east marlborough, pennsbury, pocopson, newlin, new garden, west marlborough and the borough of kennett square. We provide a place for the youngest to the oldest and everyone in between and serve people of all incomes, ages, and needs - for free. Kennett Library's mission is to ignite imagination, enrich lives, and create community with a vision to be the catalyst for a community of lifelong learning and discovery. We connect people with reading, information and technology to expand curiosity, explore interests, and discover passions. We provide a friendly, helpful, stimulating environment that is built on free access to library resources and the exchange of information. We are a place to meet, a place to learn, to teach, to share, to connect, a place to build, to expand horizons. We offer free in-person and virtual programs for children, teens, and adults. Programs include esl classes, art wo
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Kennett Library serves residents in eight municipalities (east marlborough, kennett square, kennett township, new garden, newlin, pennsbury, pocopson, west marlborough) in southern chester county.
$1,905,106 spent$90,709 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,905,106.
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 $16M to $23M (+48%).
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 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 26% · 2020 52% · 2021 24% · 2022 18% · 2023 15% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $17k → $909k.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 KENNETT LIBRARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
KENNETT 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
53% 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 KENNETT LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 54% · 2019 53% · 2020 94% · 2021 24% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — 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
31% of KENNETT LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
81% of KENNETT 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. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 KENNETT LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$750k
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 KENNETT 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 KENNETT 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 KENNETT LIBRARY?
- KENNETT LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,339,918 to it, the largest being Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation ($1,026,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENNETT LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,339,918 in grants to KENNETT LIBRARY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENNETT LIBRARY?
- Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,026,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENNETT 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.
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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 47 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