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SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $554 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($554). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$813k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$554
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Special Libraries Association Inc does

Mission

The special libraries association promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy and networking initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Membership: sla offers members access to exceptional experiences, vibrant communities, educational resources, and essential tools for success. Sla members-stay on top of the latest industry trends and issues through slas online magazine, information insights, and our social media channels; earn professional credentials and skills with sla webinar recordings, conveniently archived online; develop rewarding professional relationships at local chapter meetings and events and discipline-specific programs and at the sla annual conference; and develop leadership, marketing and technical skills by taking advantage of sla volunteer opportunities.

    $356,487 spent$200,393 earned by the program
    40% of program spending

  2. Conference and meetings: conference and meetings offer the premier opportunity for interaction, learning, and relationship building between the full diversity of members, prospective members, thought leaders, and industry partners. Here the organization facilitates cross pollination among geographically and professionally diverse membership to the mutual benefit of all.

    $309,172 spent$251,345 earned by the program
    35% of program spending

  3. Public affairs and marketing: includes slas communications, public relations, marketing, and public policy initiatives. Various efforts include printed, oral, and recorded presentations; press functions such as press releases, scholarship recognition, photography and meetings with press; marketing of products and services through print, electronic, exhibitions. Public policy includes outreach to members, collaborative efforts with other organizations to inform and most effectively educate members of issues which may affect them.

    $111,525 spent$2,041 earned by the program
    13% of program spending

  4. Scholarships

    $104,649 spent
    12% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $881,833.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.9M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.7M)2018 Revenue 95 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 83 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 93 ($2.7M) Expenses 103 ($3.3M) Net assets 78 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 47 ($1.4M) Expenses 55 ($1.8M) Net assets 72 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 36 ($1.1M) Expenses 48 ($1.5M) Net assets 66 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 40 ($1.2M) Expenses 67 ($2.2M) Net assets 37 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 17 ($487k) Expenses 23 ($731k) Net assets 31 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 23 ($666k) Expenses 28 ($890k) Net assets 27 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 28 ($813k) Expenses 29 ($946k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (28)Expenses (29)Net assets (0)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $0 (−100%).

$5.6M
$4.6M
$4.4M
$3.7M
$3.3M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.4M
$0
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$321k
’17
−$481k
’18
−$632k
’19
−$405k
’20
−$484k
’21
−$993k
’22
−$244k
’23
−$224k
’24
−$133k
’25
11
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed151514151516151815
Joined·+6+4+6+1+8+5+8+5
No longer listed·65517658
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $170 → $120.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $554 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record — $2k federal, $3k state.

Federal$2k
grants $0contracts $2k
Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$2k
State$3k
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05
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25
By state
  • OR$2k
  • NJ$410

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 SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC

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 Jersey

Society for Scholarly Publishing83%African Studies Association Inc81%Institute of Management Accountants Inc79%Contact Lens Society of America Inc79%Golf Course Superintendents Association of New Jersey78%Association for the Advancement of International Education Inc78%African Library Project78%Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc78%

Nationally

American Association of Law Libraries86%American Library Association84%Medical Library Association Inc84%International Leadership Association Inc83%Association for Library and Information Science Education83%Society for Scholarly Publishing83%Southeastern Ny Library Resources Council83%Association of Legal Administrators83%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC?
SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $554 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($554). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $554 in grants to SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 1 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