Bridgeville Public Library

Analysis

Bridgeville Public Library is a registered charity in United States, based in Bridgeville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1966, 60 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bridgeville Public Library reported income of $490k and spending of $536k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $459k to $490k (+6.8%), an average of +1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Bridgeville Public Library sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Builders Exchange Foundation ($490k), President George Washington Manor I ($490k) and Avon Grove Library ($490k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% and program service revenue 1.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $3. At year end it held assets of $2.7m against liabilities of $753k, net assets of $2.0m.