Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY
PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,881 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $493k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Palmyra Public Library does
Mission
To provide reading materials and audio/visual resources to the general public, to promote reading.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide reading materials and audio/visual resources to the general public, to promote reading during the summer to school age children.
$292,437 spent92% of program spendingTo provide management and operations of the phoenix youth center. This facility operates for the benefit of children in grades 3 through 8 within the borough of palmyra, north londonderry township, south londonderry township, and the surrounding areas. The center provides a safe learning environment after school in which the children may receive homework help, participate in recreation activities, and socialize with other students.
$27,095 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,532.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+16%).
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 47% · 2018 48% · 2019 21% · 2020 43% · 2021 45% · 2022 49% · 2023 42% · 2024 42% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
Board chair
Donald Kline
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $423.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 PALMYRA 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
PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 84% · 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
70% of PALMYRA PUBLIC 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 $24k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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
PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PALMYRA 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALMYRA 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 PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,881 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $80,881 in grants to PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALMYRA PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALMYRA 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 7 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