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Seekonk Library Trust

Seekonk Library Trust (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,600 to it, the largest being STEARNS CHARITABLE TRUST ($14,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$41k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$725k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Seekonk Library Trust does

Mission

The Seekonk Library Trust provides financial resources for the Seekonk Public Librarys long-term needs to ensure the Library is an enduring foundation of community life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Books, Subscriptions, Maintenance Improvements to the Garden Area and all Common Grounds.

    $2,566 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,566.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($21k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($668k)2021 Revenue 322 ($68k) Expenses 271 ($35k) Net assets 116 ($778k)2022 Revenue 109 ($23k) Expenses 96 ($12k) Net assets 107 ($716k)2023 Revenue 413 ($88k) Expenses 130 ($17k) Net assets 114 ($761k)2024 Revenue 213 ($45k) Expenses 368 ($47k) Net assets 99 ($662k)2025 Revenue 190 ($41k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 109 ($725k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (190)Expenses (100)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

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 $668k to $778k (+16%).

$668k
$778k
$716k
$761k
$662k
$725k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

27% of Seekonk Library Trust’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’20
$34k
’21
$11k
’22
$71k
’23
−$2k
’24
$28k
’25
16
months of
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

Patricia Pomerieau

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed333664
Joined·+0+2+4+2+0
No longer listed·02122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150 → $3k.

From the IRS filings of Seekonk Library Trust’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

Seekonk Library Trust leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

68%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 83% · 2023 80% — 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

Seekonk Library Trust draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.

MA
PA
RI
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Seekonk Library Trust runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin68% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Seekonk Library Trust

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

25% of spending goes to programs.

Program 25%Management 75%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 Seekonk Library Trust: 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 Seekonk Library Trust?
Seekonk Library Trust (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,600 to it, the largest being STEARNS CHARITABLE TRUST ($14,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Seekonk Library Trust have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $20,600 in grants to Seekonk Library Trust, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Seekonk Library Trust?
STEARNS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Seekonk Library Trust find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing