NEW HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 06-1283798 NEW HAVEN, CT

Revenue 2024: $676,638
Expenses 2024: $2,610,915

Program services were 98.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: B70Z
Classification: 1000
Street: 133 ELM 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

To work collaboratively with the New Haven Free Public Library to raise funds to support major initiatives and innovative projects that enhance the services of the Library to the residents of New Haven.

The purpose of the New Haven Free Public Library Foundation is to raise funds--general operating, project-specific funding, and endowment--on behalf of the New Haven Free Public Library. These funds are periodically transferred from the Foundation to the library to provide resources to help the Library improve its collection of print and online resources; deliver crucial community services and programs to the entire City of New Haven; provide support for strategic priorities and projects; and sustain the public library as a free and democratic institution for future generations. The New Haven Free Public Library Foundation promotes the work of the library, builds community support, and provides oversight and stewardship of contributed funds.

Expenses $2,579,502 · Grants $2,477,200

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.

Mary Ellen Savage

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Sean C Koehler

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Thomas M Haskell

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Fran DeToro

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Garrett Sheehan

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Sarah Berkman Ficca

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Lindy Lee Gold

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Tina C Weiner

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Jennifer Coggins

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Caroline Tanbee Smith

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Al Bhatt

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Barbara Segaloff

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Samantha Williams

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Raquel Santiago-Martinez

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0

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

$676,638

Expenses

$2,610,915

Contributions

$614,571

Grants paid

$2,477,200
2023

Revenue

$2,327,599

Expenses

$255,179

Contributions

$2,228,173

Grants paid

$135,614
2022

Revenue

$391,733

Expenses

$1,320,007

Contributions

$338,430

Grants paid

$1,197,834

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$676,638	$2,610,915	$614,571	$2,477,200
2023	$2,327,599	$255,179	$2,228,173	$135,614
2022	$391,733	$1,320,007	$338,430	$1,197,834

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

$488,211

Expenses

$1,391,426

Assets (EOY)

$1,231,888
2020 · 990

Revenue

$833,545

Expenses

$755,156

Assets (EOY)

$2,135,103
2019 · 990

Revenue

$531,024

Expenses

$343,315

Assets (EOY)

$2,056,714
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,031,802

Expenses

$243,241

Assets (EOY)

$1,865,624
2017 · 990

Revenue

$1,238,746

Expenses

$360,990

Assets (EOY)

$1,077,078
2016 · 990

Revenue

$270,589

Expenses

$249,632

Assets (EOY)

$199,291
2015 · 990

Revenue

$192,056

Expenses

$210,180

Assets (EOY)

$178,666
2014 · 990

Revenue

$249,924

Expenses

$210,066

Assets (EOY)

$196,696
2013 · 990

Revenue

$217,426

Expenses

$301,014

Assets (EOY)

$157,544
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$325,892

Assets (EOY)

$321,177

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$488,211	$1,391,426	$1,231,888
2020	990	$833,545	$755,156	$2,135,103
2019	990	$531,024	$343,315	$2,056,714
2018	990	$1,031,802	$243,241	$1,865,624
2017	990	$1,238,746	$360,990	$1,077,078
2016	990	$270,589	$249,632	$199,291
2015	990	$192,056	$210,180	$178,666
2014	990	$249,924	$210,066	$196,696
2013	990	$217,426	$301,014	$157,544
2012	990	not reported	$325,892	$321,177

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

New Haven Free Public Library

$2,477,200

2024 To provide funds for library operations and services.
New Haven Free Public Library

$1,197,834

2022 To provide funds for library operations and services.
New Haven Free Public Library

$135,614

2023 To provide funds for library operations and services.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NEW HAVEN

$70,554

2022 To serve as a catalyst for attracting human and capital investment to the city and its neighborhoods.
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

$20,000

2024 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

$20,000

2023 General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN

$20,000

2023 FOR THE 2023 GREAT GIVE
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$12,270

2023 EDUCATION
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN

$10,000

2024 THE GREAT GIVE
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN

$10,000

2023 FOR GENERAL SUPPORT
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$7,750

2024 EDUCATION
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$6,550

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

New Haven Free Public Library

City of New Haven · Library Services · CT

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