Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries

Analysis

Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries is a registered charity in United States, based in Pittsburgh, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. 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, Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries reported income of $2.0m and spending of $1.9m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.0m (+13%), an average of +3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Summit Academy Community School for Alternative Learners ($2.0m), Graland Country Day School Foundation ($2.0m) and Autism Academy of Learning ($2.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 44% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.5m.