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SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY
SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,858 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($310,480). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $663k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Southeast Steuben County Library does
Mission
The Southeast Steuben County Library provides free and open access to collections, electronic resources, and innovative services which anticipate, support, and respond to the ever-changing informational, cultural, and leisure needs of all people within our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Southeast Steuben County Library is dedicated to its mission to provide "free and open access to collections, electronic resources and innovative services which anticipate, support and respond to the ever-changing informational, cultural and leisure needs of all people within our community." successor to the corning area library (which closed in 1999 after a public referendum to establish a library district failed), the Southeast Steuben County Library now has a permanent charter as an association library. The library opened to the public in december 2000 at its 24,000-square-foot facility in nasser civic center plaza, corning, ny. The library won a public funding vote on october 21, 2014. The board of regents approved the library's absolute charter on june 14, 2016. The library is governed by a board of trustees with up to 15 members, with 13 trustees currently serving. The library is a member of the southern tier library system, which provides services to its 48 regional member libraries and reading rooms.Southeast Steuben County Library serves 34,000 residents in a large geographic area including the city of corning, ny and the towns of erwin, campbell, corning, caton,…
$1,724,752 spentof which $3,000 as grants$51,749 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,724,752.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $13M (+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: 2017 1% · 2018 10% · 2019 3% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Pauline Emery
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $61k → $158k.
7 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY 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
SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 26% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY 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 $94k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY 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 SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY?
- SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,858 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($310,480). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $662,858 in grants to SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY LIBRARY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC is the largest funder on record, with $310,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST STEUBEN COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing