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NORTHERN NEW YORK LIBRARY NETWORK

EIN 14-6036399 POTSDAM, NY

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Revenue 2024
$875,653
Expenses 2024
$1,090,258

Program services were 79.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B70B
Classification
2000
Street
6721 US HIGHWAY 11

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE NORTHERN NEW YORK LIBRARY NETWORK IS A REGIONAL NON-PROFIT MULTI-TYPE LIBRARY AGENCY DEDICATED TO DISTRIBUTING RESOURCES AND SERVICES AMONG ITS MEMBERS IN THE 10,636 SQUARE MILE, SEVEN-COUNTY AREA KNOWN AS THE NORTH COUNTRY. MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE ALL TYPES OF LIBRARIES: ACADEMICS, SCHOOL (P-12), PUBLIC, ARCHIVES, AND SPECIAL LIBRARIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE NORTHERN NEW YORK LIBRARY NETWORK IS A REGIONAL NON-PROFIT MULTI-TYPE LIBRARY AGENCY DEDICATED TO DISTRIBUTING RESOURCES AND SERVICES AMONG ITS MEMBERS IN THE 10,636 SQUARE MILE, SEVEN-COUNTY AREA KNOW AS THE NORTH COUNTRY. MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE ALL TYPES OF LIBRARIES: ACADEMICS, SCHOOL (P-12), PUBLIC, ARCHIVES, AND SPECIAL LIBRARIES.

  • PROVIDE COLLABORATION AND SUPPORT TO HELP MEMBERS MEET THEIR INDIVIDUAL GOALS, FOR THE ULTIMATE BENEFIT OF THE LIBRARY USER. SERVICES INCLUDE ELECTRONIC RESOURCE SHARING PROGRAMS, ACCESS TO DIGITIZATION EQUIPMENT, SPECIALIZED MEDICAL INFORMATION SERVICES, A REGIONAL CATALOG AND GROUND DELIVERY, COORDINATED COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AMONG ACADEMIC LIBRARIES, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS, PROJECT GRANTS AND TRAVEL GRANTS, AND ACCESS TO AN ATTORNEY FOR TIMELY INPUT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, VENDOR CONTRACTS, FIRST AMENDMENT, CIVIL RIGHTS, EMPLOYMENT LAW, AND OTHER LEGAL MATTERS THAT IMPACT LIBRARY OPERATIONS.

    Expenses $871,538 · Grants $63,837 · Revenue $100,208

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.

  • Ellen Adams

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jacqueline Madison

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Owen Hastings

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Justin Cree

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jessica Clemons

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Bedard

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Spofford

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jill Daby

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edward Komara

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paulette Roes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Weisman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cori Wilhelm

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Payne

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Allison Comes

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margaret E Backus

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $164,698
    From this org
    $123,035
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,663
    Hours/week
    35

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
    $875,653
    Expenses
    $1,090,258
    Contributions
    $744,759
    Grants paid
    $63,837
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,054,099
    Expenses
    $1,137,466
    Contributions
    $799,947
    Grants paid
    $46,814
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,017,840
    Expenses
    $1,262,567
    Contributions
    $850,387
    Grants paid
    $73,713

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
    $1,348,429
    Expenses
    $1,401,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,704,396
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,118,553
    Expenses
    $970,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,671,402
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,207,425
    Expenses
    $1,031,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,530,394
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,128,289
    Expenses
    $1,062,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,311,586
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,115,422
    Expenses
    $1,196,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,238,943
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,115,422
    Expenses
    $1,196,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,238,943
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,156,561
    Expenses
    $1,008,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,310,679
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,073,284
    Expenses
    $1,122,982
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,158,359
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,074,820
    Expenses
    $1,009,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,198,804
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,079,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,139,237

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • 2024 CONSULTATION, PLANNING, AND INITIAL WORK RELATED TO PROCESSING A RECENTLY ACQUIRED COLLECTION OF OVER 80,000 NEGATIVES FROM THE OGDENSBURG/HUEVELTON PHOTOGRAPHER DAPHNE M. (BETTY) STEELE (1925-2023). SUPPORT GEARED TOWARD APPLYING FOR NYSL C/P GRANT FOR THIS COLLECTION.

  • 2022 PHYSICAL PRESERVATION OF BLUEPRINTS TO ENSURE ACCESS. BUILD A HUMIDIFICATION CHAMBER AND BUY FILE CABINETS TO FLATTEN BLUEPRINTS OF HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE (EG CURE COTTAGES UNIQUE TO THE AREA) AND STORE THEM PROPERLY. EQUIPMENT WILL BE USEFUL WELL INTO FUTURE AND WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO NEIGHBORING SMALL ORGS TO HELP THEM WITH SIMILAR PRESERVATION/ACCESS NEEDS.

  • 2022 DIGITAL DEI: MAKING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP MORE EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE. BUILD A DEDICATED COLLECTION OF DIGITAL TOOLS TO SUPPORT ACCESS AND LEARNING AMONG STUDENT FELLOWS AND SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANTS, WHO COME FROM SLU'S MOST DIVERSE UNDERGRADUATE GROUPS, MEETING ONE OR MORE OF SLU'S DIVERSITY CRITERIA.

  • 2024 BUY EQUIPMENT SUITED FOR OUTDOOR CONTENT CREATION AND CREATE A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS TEACHING DIGITAL STORYTELLING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES TO HELP STUDENTS AND FACULTY CONSTRUCT POWERFUL ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVES WHILE INCREASING DIGITAL COMPETENCIES AND INSPIRING BROADER ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP.

  • 2023 CREATE AN "A.I. COLLABORATION SPACE FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING" WITHIN ODY'S NEW DS STUDIO TO PROVIDE STUDENTS AND FACULTY WITH ACCESS TO A SPACE FOR EXPERIMENTATION AND CONVERSATION/CRITIQUE, GUIDED BY SLU'S LEARNING GOAL OF "EXAMIN[ING] CRITICALLY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY."

  • 2022 SHARED SERVICES STUDY. HIRE A PLANNING FIRM TO STUDY THE REVITALIZATION IMPACT AND COMMUNITY BUY-IN FOR A RENOVATION/ADDITION OF THE RENSSELAER FALLS LIBRARY BUILDING, WHICH WOULD BE A SPACE AVAILABLE FOR OTHER VILLAGE PERSONNEL AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO USE FOR PURPOSES BEYOND LIBRARY FUNCTIONS.

  • 2022 EQUITY THROUGH STEM. BUY CLASSROOM SIZED KITS OF SMALL ROBOTICS AND MAKER KITS AND HOLD MONTHLY PROGRAMS IN THE LIBRARY AND ON LOCATION AT THE SOZO TEEN CENTER WITH THE GOAL OF EXPOSING PATRONS AGES 11-18 IN WATERTOWN TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, BASIC COMPUTING, AND CODING SKILLS.

  • 2023 DISTRIBUTE FREE, ON-DEMAND ACCESS TO SIMPLE HYGIENE KIT (CAREKIT) AT LIBRARIES, TO PROVIDE ENCOURAGEMENT AND HOPE TO OUR SERVICE POPULATIONS WHILE ALLOWING OUR LIBRARIES TO BECOME PART OF THE RECOVERY PROCESS.

  • 2024 PROMOTE ACADEMIC SUCCESS WITH EXTRA SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF WELLNESS PROGRAMS, ACTIVITY KITS FOR YOUNG KIDS (FOR STUDENTS W/O CHILDCARE), PERSONAL CARE ITEMS, AND HARDWARE DEVICES AT THE LIBRARY.

  • 2023 BRING THE DREAMING OF TIMBUCTOO EXHIBIT TO THE ADIRONDACK CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (ADKCF) LIBRARY FOR ONE MONTH, WITH TWO GUEST PRESENTER PROGRAMS EACH WEEK AND A DAY-LONG TRAING FOR STAFF AT JBL! HISTORIC SITE

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.