Bloomsburg Public Library

Analysis

Bloomsburg Public Library is a registered charity in United States, based in Bloomsburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bloomsburg Public Library reported income of $415k and spending of $436k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $334k to $415k (+24%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Bloomsburg Public Library sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Art2action Inc ($415k), 500 Sails ($415k) and Institute for Population Health Sciences ($415k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $177k. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $133k, net assets of $3.3m. It reported 19 employees.