Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY
THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,552 to it, the largest being BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ($296,442). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $424k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What The Free Library of New Hope & Solebury does
Mission
Sharing knowledge; enriching lives
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The free library of new hope and solebury is a pa forward gold star library that has provided excellent library services to the public for over 100 years. Users are granted free and equal access to a large collection of children's and adult books, audiobooks, dvds, newspapers, and magazines. Additionally, the library offers a non-traditional collection of an online e-library, business and consumer databases, museum passes, preloaded tablets, kindles and s.t.e.a.m. Kits. Free wireless access and public use computers as well as educational and entertaining programming for all ages round out the offerings. As a member of the bucks county library system, the library has reciprocal borrowing privileges with other area libraries and across the country, which enhances its user services. See schedule o for addtl info. A professional staff provides reference guidance, reader's advisory services and computer assistance.additional information on programming -the summer reading program (srp): spread over three months, the srp served over 1,700 children and adults through june, july and august by hosting art with anita, the da vinci science center, lolly hopwood and the play patrol company,…
$273,383 spent$5,321 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $273,383.
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 $2.5M to $2.8M (+14%).
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 54% · 2018 54% · 2019 53% · 2020 58% · 2021 63% · 2022 61% · 2023 63% · 2024 42% · 2025 53%. 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $40k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY’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
THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 73% · 2019 94% · 2020 71% · 2021 57% · 2022 86% · 2023 94% — 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
36% of THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY's funders are still giving 3 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
93% of THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY?
- THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,552 to it, the largest being BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ($296,442). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $383,552 in grants to THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY?
- BUCKS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY is the largest funder on record, with $296,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 15 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