Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,633 to it, the largest being ELLEN J LEWIS TRUST ($298,133). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $424k
- Net assets
- $165k
What Public Library of Catasauqua does
Mission
The catasauqua library is a nonprofit organization offering free library services to the boroughs of catasauqua, north catasauqua and surrounding communities in northeastern pennsylvania.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a free public library
$137,063 spent$1,435 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $137,063.
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.
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 $171k to $154k (−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 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 24% · 2021 36% · 2022 33% · 2023 36% · 2024 41% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $70k.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA’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
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 70% · 2022 72% · 2023 78% — 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.
Where its funders are
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA: 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA?
- PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,633 to it, the largest being ELLEN J LEWIS TRUST ($298,133). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $423,633 in grants to PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA?
- ELLEN J LEWIS TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $298,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CATASAUQUA 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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