Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY
WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,199 to it, the largest being FITZSIMMONS TUA FBO CHARITIE ($60,359). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $652k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $187k
- Net assets
- $970k
What West Chester Library Association West Chester Public Library does
Mission
See schedule o west chester public library provides all community members equal access to information, ideas, and knowledge through books, programs, and other resources to support lifelong learning. West chester public library serves the greater west chester community with materials, programs, and information for all ages. The library's pcs and free wi-fi connection provide the community access to the internet as well as up-to-date document creation software. Programs include children's story times and summer reading club; materials and after-school programs for teens and tweens; and book discussion groups, author visits and special programs for adults. Wcpl collaborates with a number of area organizations to provide programs and services outside the library building
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
West chester public library provides all community members equal access to information, ideas, and knowledge through books, programs, and other resources to support lifelong learning. West chester public library serves the greater west chester community with materials, programs, and information for all ages. The library's pcs and free wi-fi connection provide the community access to the internet as well as up-to-date document creation software. Programs include children's story times and summer reading club; materials and after-school programs for teens and tweens; and book discussion groups, author visits and special programs for adults. Wcpl collaborates with a number of area organizations to provide programs and services outside the library building.wcpl (library) provides trained staff to assist customers in accessing library's & ccls member libraries' resources; locating & assessing accurate information via internet; using technology available at the library (pcs, scanner, document creation software, etc.); accessing e-materials. Children's summer programs were fully booked. Staff continued to use virtual platforms such as zoom, kahoot!, and instagram to provide programs for…
$441,102 spent$18,160 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $441,102.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $1.3M (−35%).
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: 2020 67% · 2021 60% · 2022 56% · 2023 54% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $15k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC 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
WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 48% · 2021 39% · 2022 40% · 2023 54% — 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
40% of WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,199 to it, the largest being FITZSIMMONS TUA FBO CHARITIE ($60,359). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $187,199 in grants to WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FITZSIMMONS TUA FBO CHARITIE is the largest funder on record, with $60,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST CHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WEST CHESTER PUBLIC 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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