Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,357 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Upper Darby Township and Sellers Memorial Library does
Mission
To provide library services to the public of upper darby township; provide access to books, materials and program; and support lifelong education, personal growth and creative use of leisure time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Library services provided to students and residents of upper darby township.
$1,677,359 spent$37,465 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,677,359.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $1.7M (+8%).
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 94% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 94% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. 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
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 $8k → $68.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL 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
UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 40% · 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 UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Organizations like UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL 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 UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,357 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $44,357 in grants to UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY?
- Pennsylvania Humanities Council is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP AND SELLERS MEMORIAL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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