Virginia · Nonprofit
WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY
WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE HALPRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION B ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Walter T McCarthy Law Library does
Mission
The library has existed for more than 45 years as a legal research library with a particular emphasis on virginia materials. It is one of the few legal resources available to the general public in arlington which provides free access to local, state and federal materials through commercial legal databases and the services of a professional law librarian. The library operations are funded by a combination of authorized state court fees, county funds, contributions from the local bar association and fundraising activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The walter t. Mccarthy law library is a public law library. It is a valuable legal resource for the arlington community. Its mission is to provide access to the law for all members of the community. The location of the library on the first floor of the courthouse provides optimal access to legal information for pro se litigants, as well as county residents, businesses, and others involved with the judicial system and legal matters.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $72k to $89k (+24%).
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.
5% of WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.
From the IRS filings of WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW 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 WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY?
- WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE HALPRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION B ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY?
- THE HALPRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION B is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALTER T MCCARTHY LAW LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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