Connecticut · Nonprofit
OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC
OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,166,663 to it, the largest being SEHERR-THOSS CHARITABLE TRUST ($520,934). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Oliver Wolcott Library Inc does
Mission
To provide facilities, materials, services and programs that foster lifelong learning and a welcoming environment for community interaction, enhanced by staff dedicated to this vision and possessed of compassion, a cooperative spirit and strong communication and interpersonal skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The library facilitates to serve the educational, cultural, professional, recreational and informational needs of the citizens of litchfield, connecticut and its surrounding towns.
$1,010,070 spent$2,132 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,010,070.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.6M to $5.4M (+19%).
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 5% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $87k → $110k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 funders by total. 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
OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 28% · 2019 72% · 2020 67% · 2021 58% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% — 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
69% of OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC: 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 OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC?
- OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,166,663 to it, the largest being SEHERR-THOSS CHARITABLE TRUST ($520,934). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,166,663 in grants to OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC?
- SEHERR-THOSS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $520,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 24 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