Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY
MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,695 to it, the largest being BENJAMIN E BLOCK ($99,876). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Montgomery County - Norristown Public Library does
Mission
Montgomery county norristown public library, a gateway to lifelong learning, provides convenient access to resources that inform, educate, entertain, and enrich people's lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing library materials, resources and services to the general public.
$4,604,681 spent$138,876 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe montgomery county district library center, an entity of the Montgomery County - Norristown Public Library, provides access to electronic databases and electronic materials collections; coordinates professional development opportunities; advocates for libraries and the informational needs of the montgomery county community; provides regulary scheduled delivery of materials to all county public libraries; and oversees county-wide bookmobile services to special populations including seniors and preschoolers.
$1,534,893 spent$7,309 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,139,574.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.0M to $11M (+123%).
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 87% · 2018 92% · 2019 92% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 45% · 2024 39% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $24k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN 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
MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 42% · 2021 52% · 2022 52% · 2023 45% — 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
40% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
97% of MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN 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. $41k 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
MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $193k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$193k
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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN 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
91% 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
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Conshohocken Free Library · exempt
- Perkiomen Valley Library · exempt
- Royersford Free Public Library · exempt
- Upper Perkiomen Valley Library Assoc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,695 to it, the largest being BENJAMIN E BLOCK ($99,876). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $212,695 in grants to MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- BENJAMIN E BLOCK is the largest funder on record, with $99,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY COUNTY - NORRISTOWN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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