New York · Nonprofit
SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY
SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,576 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $303k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $672k
What Sherrill-Kenwood Free Library does
Mission
To provide materials, programs, and a community center to meet the educational, cultural, recreational, and informational needs of all members of our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The sherill-kenwood library provides materials, programs and a community center to meet the educational, cultural and informational needs of the community.
$205,602 spent$2,210 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe sherill-kenwood library provides materials, programs and a community center to meet the educational, cultural and informational needs of the community.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $205,602.
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 2022 to 2023, from $506k to $799k (+58%).
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 48% · 2018 62% · 2019 59% · 2020 53% · 2021 39% · 2022 34% · 2023 84% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE 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. 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $77 → $140.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE 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
SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
78% 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 SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 94% · 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
78% of SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE 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 SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY?
- SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,576 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,576 in grants to SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE LIBRARY?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHERRILL-KENWOOD FREE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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