New York · Nonprofit
NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,033 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & RUTH HENDEL FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Capitalize Albany Corporationlocal
- Pine Tree Foundation of New Yorkportfolio match
- The Weinig Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $6k.
1 of 5 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 NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’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 YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 99% · 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
84% of NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $263 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Capitalize Albany CorporationlocalNY · funds 66 organizations near you
- Pine Tree Foundation of New Yorkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Weinig Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stonegrodd Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mayer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hochberg Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wonderful Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steven a Klar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morris Kirschner Perpetual Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth & Robert Rosenman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $261k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$261k
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 NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 2 related entities
- New York Black Librarians Caucus · exempt
- Library Trustees Association of Nys · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION?
- NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,033 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & RUTH HENDEL FOUNDATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $125,033 in grants to NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION?
- STEPHEN & RUTH HENDEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 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.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing