Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY
MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,261 to it, the largest being RUTH B COBLE PERPETUAL TRUST ($50,002). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $242k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $971k
What Middletown Public Library does
Mission
provide public library services to the local community
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The library has one service program and that is to provide library services, which includes circulation of books, videos, DVDs, e-books, music, magazines and newspapers. Internet services, including wifi and computers are available free of charge. The library also provides reading clubs and programs, a STEM Club for children, and other literacy related activities and services for children, adults and families.
$105,185 spent$21,795 earned by the program100% of program spendingNo other programs
$0 spent0% of program spendingNo other programs
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $105,185.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $338k to $867k (+156%).
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: 2021 23% · 2022 13% · 2023 51% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $21k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MIDDLETOWN 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
MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 80% · 2021 90% · 2022 69% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
85% of MIDDLETOWN 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. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MIDDLETOWN 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
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Borough of Middletown · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDDLETOWN 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 MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,261 to it, the largest being RUTH B COBLE PERPETUAL TRUST ($50,002). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $84,261 in grants to MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- RUTH B COBLE PERPETUAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLETOWN 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.
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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 2020–2024), 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