Georgia · Nonprofit
LYRASIS
LYRASIS (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,230,687 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($6,590,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Lyrasis does
Mission
Lyrasis empowers libraries, archives and museums through content services, open technologies and community-based solutions that expand access to information, preserve cultural heritage, and advance the shared goals of our members and the communities we serve. Collaboratively, we build a future that is inclusive, equitable, accessible and sustainable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lyrasis creates and sustains technologies, services and programs that are uniquely designed to help libraries, archives, museums and research organizations access and share their vital collections, data and knowledge. The organization helps community members be more efficient, effective and impactful to the communities they serve.Lyrasis is a leader in open technologies, hosting, data-migration, content licensing, and community supported software programs for libraries, archives, museums and research organizations worldwide.Lyrasis negotiates best-in-class group license agreements and more equitable and sustainable pricing for electronic resources and services. We work at scale to simplify library acquisition workflows and strenghthen value on investment for our members. Lyrasis advances a broad array of open access programs that empower diverse institutions to shape the future of scholarly communication.Lyrasis builds new communities to foster data exchange and interoperability services that enhance scholarly communication, such as the orcid us and Lyrasis datacite communities.
$130,246,627 spentof which $106,137 as grants$133,096,120 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $130,246,627.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $82M to $97M (+18%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of LYRASIS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
John Wilkin
CEO
Board chair
Courtney L Young
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.5M.
From the IRS filings of LYRASIS’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
LYRASIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 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
LYRASIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LYRASIS has grown faster than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding LYRASIS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record — $4.8M federal, $1.9M state.
- Department of Defense$3.0M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$171k
- Smithsonian Institution$53k
- Department of Homeland Security$33k
- National Archives and Records Administration$25k
- CT$1.2M
- VT$344k
- OR$124k
- DE$89k
- MA$59k
- NJ$19k
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 LYRASIS
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bibliolabs LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYRASIS: 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 LYRASIS?
- LYRASIS (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,230,687 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($6,590,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYRASIS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,230,687 in grants to LYRASIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYRASIS?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYRASIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 3 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