New York · Nonprofit
WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL
WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,967 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Western New York Library Resources Council does
Mission
Western New York Library Resources Council is a member-driven organization that helps libraries build connections with each other, library users and the larger community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General library support operations.
$729,495 spentof which $35,753 as grants$31,608 earned by the program61% of program spendingHospital library service program - to improve access and informational services to area hospitals.
$337,036 spent$174,710 earned by the program28% of program spendingMedical information services program - to improve hospital library access to medical and health information.
$48,838 spent4% of program spendingAsk us 24/7 program - to provide 24 hour, seven day a week virtual reference services to member libraries and library systems. Expenses - 76,545 including grants of 0 revenue - 81,664 ------ ------ ------ totals for other program accomplishments: expenses 76,545 including grants of 0 revenue 81,664 ======= ====== ======
$76,545 spent$81,664 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,191,914.
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. 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 $1.5M to $1.9M (+27%).
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 74% · 2018 73% · 2019 73% · 2020 73% · 2021 76% · 2022 82% · 2023 75% · 2024 72% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $53k.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL’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
WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
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
WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL: 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 WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL?
- WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,967 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $75,967 in grants to WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 5 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