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LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA

EIN 23-1370444 PHILADELPHIA, PA

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Revenue 2024
$4,846,975
Expenses 2024
$4,078,187

Program services were 77.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B76Z
Classification
3000
Street
1314 LOCUST ST

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

THE MISSION OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY IS TO ENRICH PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF OUR NATION'S HISTORY BY FOSTERING ADVANCED RESEARCH IN ITS COLLECTIONS OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS RELATING TO AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE FROM THE 17TH THROUGH 19TH CENTURIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH LIBRARY FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • OPERATION OF A RARE BOOK REPOSITORY AND RESEARCH LIBRARY, PRESENTING EXHIBITS, PROGRAMS AND PUBLICATIONS FOR MEMBERS AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

    Expenses $3,157,992 · Grants $284,700 · Revenue $127,792

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Michael Barsanti

    EDWIN WOLF 2ND DIR UNTIL 1/2024

    Total calculated
    $74,404
    From this org
    $63,468
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,936
    Hours/week
    35
  • John Van Horne

    EDWIN WOLF 2ND DIR FROM 2/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    35
  • J Michael Riordan

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maria Thompson

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Rowland

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ann Lucas

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Philippa Campbell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Harry S Cherken Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maude De Schauensee

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stacy M Dutton

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Flamer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Judith Freyer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emma Hart

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Louise Marshall Kelly

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jessica Linker

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carla Peterson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James H Scott

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Theresa R Snyder

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Neferteri Strickland

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Aron D Wahrman

    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
    $4,846,975
    Expenses
    $4,078,187
    Contributions
    $4,264,533
    Grants paid
    $284,700
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,449,367
    Expenses
    $4,547,888
    Contributions
    $1,186,853
    Grants paid
    $310,849
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,432,009
    Expenses
    $4,248,510
    Contributions
    $1,953,114
    Grants paid
    $333,419

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
    $12,014,446
    Expenses
    $4,304,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,011,303
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,255,606
    Expenses
    $4,034,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,905,585
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,259,115
    Expenses
    $3,857,145
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,407,422
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,836,492
    Expenses
    $3,448,035
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,949,796
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,935,214
    Expenses
    $3,850,849
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,634,442
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,577,252
    Expenses
    $3,452,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,460,779
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,457,442
    Expenses
    $3,085,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,938,709
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,734,224
    Expenses
    $3,200,850
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,471,638
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,795,377
    Expenses
    $3,018,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,982,799
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,884,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,737,965

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

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

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • IRVING STREET LLC

    PROPERTY OWNERSHIP · PA · assets $2,698,255

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.