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THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY

THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,297 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($83,567). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$711k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$172k
Net assets
$4.9M
6/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Thomas Beaver Free Library does

Mission

Thomas Beaver Free Library offers the citizens of montour county, rush township and riverside borough educational and social opportunities by providing materials, services, and programs for all. We encourage lifelong learning and intellectual curiosity in our diverse community be connecting people and ideas in a welcoming and inclusive space.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides free access to books, magazines, newspapers and other research materials as well as computer and internet access to all members of the community. Provides educational programs free to children and adults to encourage literacy and reading for all ages.

    $284,601 spent$1,724 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $284,601.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($266k) Expenses 100 ($271k) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 99 ($263k) Expenses 115 ($312k) Net assets 90 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 296 ($788k) Expenses 112 ($303k) Net assets 118 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 101 ($269k) Expenses 102 ($276k) Net assets 123 ($3.5M)2021 Revenue 145 ($386k) Expenses 101 ($274k) Net assets 136 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 484 ($1.3M) Expenses 115 ($311k) Net assets 155 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 170 ($453k) Expenses 152 ($411k) Net assets 157 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 267 ($711k) Expenses 135 ($366k) Net assets 174 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (267)Expenses (135)Net assets (174)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.6M to $3.3M (+30%).

$2.8M
$2.6M
$3.3M
$3.5M
$3.8M
$4.4M
$4.4M
$4.9M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 8% · 2020 33% · 2021 17% · 2022 5% · 2023 16% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
−$49k
’18
$484k
’19
−$6k
’20
$112k
’21
$977k
’22
$42k
’23
$345k
’24
42
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.

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Listed1413141414161414
Joined·+6+2+0+2+3+1+0
No longer listed·7102130
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $16k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 THOMAS BEAVER 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

THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

86% 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 THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY.

49%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 43% · 2021 58% · 2022 58% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.

“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

83% of THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY'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. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THOMAS BEAVER 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 20%Fundraising 2%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THOMAS BEAVER 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 THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY?
THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,297 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($83,567). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $172,297 in grants to THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY?
FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $83,567 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THOMAS BEAVER FREE LIBRARY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing