Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY
SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,118 to it, the largest being BUTLER COUNTY FEDERATED LIBRARY SYSTEM ($355,927). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $263k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $458k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What South Butler Community Library does
Mission
Identify, prioritize, provide and continually improve services, educational, self-improvement, leisure opportunities, literary materials, facilities, professional, voluntary and charitable leadership and support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Childrens program-to encourage children to read. This is done by having a person on staff that specializes in how to make children feel excited about reading. The response from our area has been overwhelming. The children that come to the program end up becoming regular visitors to the library and checking out more and more books to read.
$6,256 spent5% of program spendingGeneral library services-we provide a library that is part of the butler county federated library system and as such we are able to offer materials from various libraries not just the resources we have at our location. Our location is open 6 days a week to the community at large.
$127,610 spent$214,969 earned by the program95% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,866.
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 $1.1M to $1.3M (+21%).
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 24% · 2018 34% · 2019 44% · 2020 47% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 26% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY 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. 0 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 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $48k → $70k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY 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
SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 62% · 2019 81% · 2020 68% · 2021 85% · 2022 89% · 2023 71% — 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
100% of SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY 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 SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY 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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY 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 SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY?
- SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,118 to it, the largest being BUTLER COUNTY FEDERATED LIBRARY SYSTEM ($355,927). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $458,118 in grants to SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY LIBRARY?
- BUTLER COUNTY FEDERATED LIBRARY SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $355,927 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH BUTLER COMMUNITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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