KENNETT LIBRARY

EIN 23-1547585 KENNETT SQ, PA

Revenue 2024: $6,767,254
Expenses 2024: $2,685,940

Program services were 70.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: PO BOX 730

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

KENNETT LIBRARY IS A REGIONAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OPEN TO ALL AND SERVING THE TOWNSHIPS OF KENNETT, EAST MARLBOROUGH, PENNSBURY, POCOPSON, NEWLIN, NEW GARDEN, WEST MARLBOROUGH AND THE BOROUGH OF KENNETT SQUARE. WE PROVIDE A PLACE FOR THE YOUNGEST TO THE OLDEST AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN AND SERVE PEOPLE OF ALL INCOMES, AGES, AND NEEDS - FOR FREE. KENNETT LIBRARY'S MISSION IS TO IGNITE IMAGINATION, ENRICH LIVES, AND CREATE COMMUNITY WITH A VISION TO BE THE CATALYST FOR A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNING AND DISCOVERY. WE CONNECT PEOPLE WITH READING, INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY TO EXPAND CURIOSITY, EXPLORE INTERESTS, AND DISCOVER PASSIONS. WE PROVIDE A FRIENDLY, HELPFUL, STIMULATING ENVIRONMENT THAT IS BUILT ON FREE ACCESS TO LIBRARY RESOURCES AND THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION. WE ARE A PLACE TO MEET, A PLACE TO LEARN, TO TEACH, TO SHARE, TO CONNECT, A PLACE TO BUILD, TO EXPAND HORIZONS. WE OFFER FREE IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, TEENS, AND ADULTS. PROGRAMS INCLUDE ESL CLASSES, ART WO

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE KENNETT LIBRARY IS IGNITING IMAGINATION, ENRICHING LIVES, CREATING COMMUNITY. KENNETT LIBRARY AIMS TO BE THE CATALYST FOR A COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNING AND DISCOVERY.

THE KENNETT LIBRARY SERVES RESIDENTS IN EIGHT MUNICIPALITIES (EAST MARLBOROUGH, KENNETT SQUARE, KENNETT TOWNSHIP, NEW GARDEN, NEWLIN, PENNSBURY, POCOPSON, WEST MARLBOROUGH) IN SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY.

Expenses $1,905,106 · Revenue $90,709

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

BRADLEY PEIPER

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

10
DR LOREN PEARSON

VICE PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

10
LEE SAUSEN

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
BARBARA NECARSULMER

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BARBARA BOLTON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
TODD BRUCE

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LENDA CARRILLO

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARGARET EGLI

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DR BARBARA FORNEY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DANIEL GANNON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
VICKI GEHRT

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DR WILLIAM MAJARIAN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1.75
DR BRENDA MERCOMES

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
PATTIE MORGAN MILLER

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CLAIRE MURRAY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LEAH REYNOLDS

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DR CORINNE SWEENEY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
COLLIS O TOWNSEND

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$6,767,254

Expenses

$2,685,940

Contributions

$6,461,532

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$4,840,483

Expenses

$1,699,551

Contributions

$3,390,146

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$4,046,003

Expenses

$1,080,737

Contributions

$3,917,993

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$6,767,254	$2,685,940	$6,461,532	$0
2023	$4,840,483	$1,699,551	$3,390,146	$0
2022	$4,046,003	$1,080,737	$3,917,993	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$4,479,180

Expenses

$1,022,098

Assets (EOY)

$11,133,074
2020 · 990

Revenue

$2,120,153

Expenses

$1,048,963

Assets (EOY)

$7,304,593
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$2,489,273

Expenses

$1,131,249

Assets (EOY)

$5,971,308
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,526,886

Expenses

$1,035,386

Assets (EOY)

$4,391,108
2017 · 990

Revenue

$1,287,199

Expenses

$904,864

Assets (EOY)

$4,483,474

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$4,479,180	$1,022,098	$11,133,074
2020	990	$2,120,153	$1,048,963	$7,304,593
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$2,489,273	$1,131,249	$5,971,308
2018	990	$1,526,886	$1,035,386	$4,391,108
2017	990	$1,287,199	$904,864	$4,483,474

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

CHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$265,000

2022 EDUCATION & LIBRARY
DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$205,000

2022 ADULT MAKER SPACE, CAPITAL CAMPAIGN, SUPPORT FOR THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN IN MEMORY OF CARL S. GATES, JR
CHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$148,700

2023 Arts & Culture
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$115,895

2023 EDUCATION
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$69,050

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$53,500

2022 EDUCATION
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

$50,000

2022 CULTURE
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY

$34,840

2023 DISTRIBUTION TO AGEN
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY

$34,540

2022 DISTRIBUTION TO AGEN
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY

$34,180

2024 DISTRIBUTION TO AGEN

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.