Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY
NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,713 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $377k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $308k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What North Wales Area Library does
Mission
By sharing information and providing opportunities for life-long learning we enrich the lives of the communities that we serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The North Wales Area Library is an award-winning library, earning the pa forward gold star designation. This achievement demonstrates the library's performance that measures deviation from the average in library visits, circulation, program attendance, and public internet usage. The mission of the nwal is sharing information and providing opportunities for life-long learning and enriching the lives of the communities that we serve. The library is a community center serving the north penn region. Nwal continues to expand services to accommodate the needs of our families to foster life-long learning. North Wales Area Library offers a combination of virtual as well as traditional opportunities for our patrons to become engaged in educational programming. The library website, www,northwaleslibrary.org has resources for all ages which can be visited from any location. E-resources include mango (a foreign language course), the philadelphia inquirer, tumblebooks, ebooks and magazines and much more. Nwal partners with many individuals and community organizations such as gardening clubs, yoga, martial arts, music, art, and environmental organizations to provide programming opportunities…
$234,331 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $234,331.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.5M to $2.6M (+4%).
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 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 55% · 2022 75% · 2023 31% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $44k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 NORTH WALES AREA 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
NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 94% · 2022 51% · 2023 67% — 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
75% of NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $118k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like NORTH WALES AREA 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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY?
- NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,713 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $307,713 in grants to NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH WALES AREA LIBRARY?
- Chester County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH WALES AREA 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 2017–2024), 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