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LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC

LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,128 to it, the largest being ANN M MARTIN FOUNDATION INC ($414,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$151k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$420k
Net assets
$47k
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Lisa Novak Community Libraries Inc does

Program

  1. To donate books and small libraries of books to to organizations that work with kids in poor and underserved areas, such as day care centers,prison visiting areas for children and after school programs.

    $227,248 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2018 Revenue 109 ($102k) Expenses 85 ($104k) Net assets 92 ($15k)2019 Revenue 109 ($103k) Expenses 91 ($111k) Net assets 44 ($7k)2020 Revenue 142 ($134k) Expenses 103 ($125k) Net assets 96 ($16k)2021 Revenue 201 ($189k) Expenses 118 ($144k) Net assets 365 ($61k)2022 Revenue 265 ($250k) Expenses 130 ($158k) Net assets 924 ($155k)2023 Revenue 136 ($128k) Expenses 142 ($172k) Net assets 660 ($111k)2024 Revenue 160 ($151k) Expenses 177 ($215k) Net assets 279 ($47k)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (177)Net assets (279)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $61k to $155k (+153%).

$17k
$15k
$7k
$16k
$61k
$155k
$111k
$47k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $81k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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

99% of LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150 on record.

State$150
Top programs
  • FREIGHT$150

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC?
LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,128 to it, the largest being ANN M MARTIN FOUNDATION INC ($414,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $420,128 in grants to LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC?
ANN M MARTIN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $414,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LISA NOVAK COMMUNITY LIBRARIES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 6 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