New York · Nonprofit
PATTERSON LIBRARY
PATTERSON LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,968 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,500). 4 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
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Patterson Library does
Mission
The Patterson Library provides valuable and equitable services that fulfill essential roles in the community, including: community activities and information, education and independent learning support, and popular materials and technology.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Information/educational services and programs: we offer programs for patrons of all ages. Adult program offerings include book discussions, movies, mahjong, local history discussions, environmental programs, author talks, crafts, cooking demonstrations, lectures, health and exercise programs, writing workshops, financial seminars, and book discussions. Children and teen program offerings include storytimes, music and movement programs, movies, arts and crafts programs, minecraft, book discussions, hands-on cooking and gardening workshops, musical theater productions, murder mystery evenings, and open mic nights. A total of 8,094 people attended 700 programs in 2024. Summer reading keeps children engaged during their break with reading incentives and educational and entertaining programming. In 2024, over 200 people participated in our summer reading program. In addition, the library offers computers, copying, faxing, and scanning services, 24-hour wifi, and one-on-one programs such as open computer help and homework help. In 2024 we had over 10,000 wifi sessions, and over 2,000 computer sessions. Adult services staff answered over 13,000 questions. We also added 329 new…
$719,699 spent99% of program spendingCollections and circulation: the library's collection is comprised of both physical material and downloadable and electronic content. Our physical materials include books, audiobooks, periodicals, dvds, and cds. The downloadable content includes ebooks, audiobooks, films, and various databases. We also have a "library of things", which consists of museum passes, cakepans, tools, gaming systems, seeds, and hotspots. We also are able to access items from the 66 -member library mid-hudson library system, of which we are a part, as well as interlibrary loan items from across the state and country. We had over 39,000 visitors in 2024 who checked out approximately 56,000 items from these physical and digital collections.
Outreach: the library staff partners with community members to introduce the public to what the library has to offer as well as to bring educational and entertaining programming to them. We partner with local organizations like the patterson rotary to host the community-wide touch-a-truck event in june. We host aarp volunteers to provide free tax help to seniors and low- income individuals from february to april each year. We feature local artists' displays in our community room. We collect items for the patterson food pantry, putnam humane society, vet 2 vet veteran's organization, and the putnam community action partnership. The patterson historical society hosts their annual meeting and quarterly programs at our library, and the cornell cooperative extension and friends of the great swamp partner with our programmers to host adult and children's environmental programs. Youth services staff conduct visits with preschool, homeschool, and k-12 school classes to introduce literacy concepts and to instruct students on the use of the library.
Library services as well as various educational and social programs to enhance the quality of life within the surrounding community.
$3,623 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $723,322.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.4M to $2.6M (+10%).
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: 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of PATTERSON LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $6k.
3 of 5 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 PATTERSON 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
PATTERSON LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 PATTERSON LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 57% · 2019 55% · 2020 95% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
62% of PATTERSON 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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PATTERSON LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PATTERSON 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PATTERSON 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 PATTERSON LIBRARY?
- PATTERSON LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,968 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,500). 4 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 PATTERSON LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $32,968 in grants to PATTERSON LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATTERSON LIBRARY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATTERSON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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