Maine · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,358 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($161,545). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $887k
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Southwest Harbor Public Library does
Mission
The Southwest Harbor Public Library inspires and supports the enjoyment of life-long learning, the love of literacy, and the exploration of new ideas, welcoming everyone through its doors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Southwest Harbor Public Library contributes to the cultural and economic prosperity of southwest harbor and "quietside" of mount desert island by providing library services to 11981 southwest harbor residents and to 3848 non-residents. Last year the library circulated 55,500 volumes to registered borrowers with an additional 6,000 items to other libraries via inter-library loan. Nearly 51,000 people visited the library to check out 60,000 physical and online books, magazines, dvd's, and audiobooks or to use public access computers or the high-speed wifi, or to read in its reading rooms and use public meeting spaces.
$524,997 spent100% of program spendingYouth services: an important part of the library is the areas devoted to children and young adults. Youth services circulated 16,904 volumes to borrowers. The library sponsored 177 storytime programs to babies, toddlers, and young school-age children and sponsored 230 children's events to 7572 child aged attendees plus their adult companions. The library has robust summer offerings with a summer reading program with 211 children participants.
Virtual and special services: the library's website was viewed over 50,000 times. High-speed wi-fi is available 24/7 and was used by 8,400 people. Public access computers were provided for 37,000 15 minute sessions by 3325 people. The library's digital archive is an innovative database with over 40,000 local items of interest including the library's historic photograph collection, documents, and other artifacts through a visual record and is accessed by local and international researchers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $524,997.
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.
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 $6.4M to $7.1M (+11%).
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 9% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 15% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 8% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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 narrowed from 15 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $109k → $66k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC 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
SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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 SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 19% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 31% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $440k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC 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 SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $887,358 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($161,545). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $887,358 in grants to SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $161,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 30 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