New York · Nonprofit
TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY
TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050 to it, the largest being THE KURZ FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $985k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Tappan Free Library does
Mission
The Tappan Free Library is a free association library, since 1958, The Library is a New York State Not-For-Profit corporation whose purpose is to provide library service to the community of Tappan. The Town of Orangetown provides approximately 92% of our annual financial support primarily through tax assessments. The remainder of our funding comes from a local school district referendum, grants, fines and private donations. Serving a community of 6,613 residents our mission is to offer our community a place to read, to learn, and to gather together. Professional and courteous staff members guide patrons to a wide variety of books and other relevant materials in printed, recorded and emergent technologies. The Library provides programs that will encourage children, interest young adults, and enrich our lives and community. The Library is housed in a building that preserves Tappanb
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
PRIMARY LIBRARY SERVICE ROLES Providing Current Topics and TitlesWe make materials available for patrons of all ages. We provide these materials in a wide range of formats including print, e-media and audio visual material. Providing General InformationWe provide a profession staff to meet the needs of our patrons questions on broad array of topics related to work, school and personal life. We provide information answers to consumer information inquiries as well.Serving as a resource center for Lifelong Learning We provide opportunities for personal growth and development including various programs for children, teens and adults.Children ProgramsWe provide literacy programs for newborns to school-age students. Programs include storytime for babies and toddlers, crafts, literacy skills, educational presentations, movies, various performers and an annual summer reading program.Teen ProgramsWe provide programs from computer coding to preparing students for college entry testing to finding scholarship to movies to crafts. We also encourage students to read in our annual summer reading program.Adult programsWe offer informative and entertaining talks, book discussions, one-on-one…
$808,130 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $808,130.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $3.7M (−3%).
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 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 TAPPAN 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
TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50 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.
Organizations like TAPPAN FREE 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 TAPPAN 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY?
- TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,050 to it, the largest being THE KURZ FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,050 in grants to TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAPPAN FREE LIBRARY?
- THE KURZ FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAPPAN FREE 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 2 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