Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LIBRARY FREEDOM INC
LIBRARY FREEDOM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $756k
What Library Freedom Inc does
Mission
To provide library workers and their communities the necessary skills to turn their ideals into action, focused on issues like privacy, intellectual freedom, and information democracy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, LFP achieved numerous program accomplishments. We held our intensive training program, Library Freedom Institute, for six months and with 35 participants. We hosted LFP Camp, our biannual conference for LFP members. We developed our strategic plan and adopted a new membership policy. We formed two new member-driven committees, one focused on AI, and the other on higher ed. We created new resources for intellectual freedom, data protection, and avoiding scams and fraud, and translated many existed resources into Spanish. We hosted new trainings, including a summer webinar series focused on free speech in libraries, and also offered our monthly online book club. We presented at conferences like ALA, ABOS, ARSL, and HOPE. Finally, we closed the year hosting independent publishers and librarians at a Book Buzz event in NYC.
$239,001 spent$21,782 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $239,001.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $500k to $773k (+55%).
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: 2022 18% · 2023 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of LIBRARY FREEDOM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Alison Macrina
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 LIBRARY FREEDOM INC’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
LIBRARY FREEDOM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
LIBRARY FREEDOM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LIBRARY FREEDOM INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,043 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LIBRARY FREEDOM 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 LIBRARY FREEDOM INC: 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 LIBRARY FREEDOM INC?
- LIBRARY FREEDOM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,100,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIBRARY FREEDOM INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,100,000 in grants to LIBRARY FREEDOM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIBRARY FREEDOM INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIBRARY FREEDOM INC 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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