Vermont · Nonprofit
ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY
ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,941 to it, the largest being WILLIAM E CLARK TRUST XXX-XX-XXXX ($115,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Incshared funderslocal
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio match
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio match
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.
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 72% · 2018 91% · 2019 91% · 2020 90% · 2021 92% · 2022 87% · 2023 55% · 2024 87% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $27k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 ST ALBANS 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
ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 85% · 2019 86% · 2020 52% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 54% — 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
ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Incshared funderslocalVT · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 19 organizations near you
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Country Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ft & Anna C Manley Mem Tw Pfdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59k on record.
- Grants$38k
- Other Grants$20k
- Gr, Awards, Scholarships&Loans$813
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 ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ST ALBANS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY?
- ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,941 to it, the largest being WILLIAM E CLARK TRUST XXX-XX-XXXX ($115,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $154,941 in grants to ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY?
- WILLIAM E CLARK TRUST XXX-XX-XXXX is the largest funder on record, with $115,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST ALBANS FREE LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing