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NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY

NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,693 to it, the largest being THE KURZ FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$13M
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What New City Free Library does

Mission

To provide free public library services

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide free public library services to communities of new city, congers and bardonia, new york.

    $4,791,640 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,791,640.

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 ($5.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2018 Revenue 100 ($5.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 113 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 101 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 127 ($7.1M)2020 Revenue 103 ($5.5M) Expenses 105 ($4.8M) Net assets 139 ($7.8M)2021 Revenue 105 ($5.5M) Expenses 97 ($4.4M) Net assets 159 ($8.9M)2022 Revenue 116 ($6.2M) Expenses 105 ($4.8M) Net assets 180 ($10M)2023 Revenue 116 ($6.1M) Expenses 102 ($4.6M) Net assets 207 ($12M)2024 Revenue 117 ($6.2M) Expenses 120 ($5.5M) Net assets 220 ($12M)2025 Revenue 120 ($6.4M) Expenses 125 ($5.7M) Net assets 229 ($13M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (125)Net assets (229)

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 $9.3M to $18M (+89%).

$6.2M
$6.6M
$7.5M
$8.1M
$9.3M
$18M
$21M
$19M
$19M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 94% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$727k
’17
$724k
’18
$800k
’19
$658k
’20
$1.1M
’21
$1.4M
’22
$1.5M
’23
$735k
’24
$673k
’25
9.6
months of
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.

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Listed999141413151515
Joined·+2+0+6+1+0+2+2+0
No longer listed·20111020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $100.

From the IRS filings of NEW CITY FREE 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

NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 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

78% of NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
NJ
FL

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

’19
’22
’23
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NEW CITY FREE 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY?
NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,693 to it, the largest being THE KURZ FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,693 in grants to NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY.
Who is the largest funder of NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY?
THE KURZ FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW CITY FREE LIBRARY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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