PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B71Z

Classification

3000

Street

5 MONUMENT SQ

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

• Portland Public Library operates five physical locations (four public branches and one offsite storage facility) and a bookmobile. PPL also provides an extensive online collection of materials and digital services. PPL is a nonprofit organization governed by a Board of Trustees and managed by professional staff. The library serves the City of Portland and, through a cooperative agreement with the Maine State Library, the residents of Cumberland and York Counties. In 2024, PPL added 5,064 new borrowers; offered 1,456 programs with total attendance of 22,598; responded to 37,089 reference inquiries; and recorded 937,136 circulations of print and digital materials.

  Expenses $5,487,613 · Revenue $72,553

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.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $7,452,972

  Expenses

  $6,363,878

  Contributions

  $6,904,831

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $5,833,722

  Expenses

  $6,096,079

  Contributions

  $5,473,440

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,956,660

  Expenses

  $5,625,807

  Contributions

  $5,788,143

  Grants paid

  $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

  $9,283,612

  Expenses

  $5,297,929

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,295,228

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,936,647

  Expenses

  $4,853,892

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,402,592

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,097,147

  Expenses

  $5,318,813

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,834,280

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,532,475

  Expenses

  $5,389,873

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,906,506

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,222,483

  Expenses

  $5,243,769

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,552,706

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,194,883

  Expenses

  $5,099,713

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,187,549

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,738,156

  Expenses

  $5,065,213

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,711,030

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,703,322

  Expenses

  $4,984,408

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,074,282

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,474,113

  Expenses

  $4,804,902

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,283,617

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $4,558,416

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,031,989

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $125,625

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $34,925

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2023 · Ensuring a Safe Experience for Patrons and Staff at Portland Public Library

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $24,825

  2022 · EDUCATION

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $23,648

  2023 · Libraries

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $20,526

  2022 · Libraries

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $15,004

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $13,600

  2023 · EDUCATION

• MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $12,669

  2024 · Libraries

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $12,150

  2024 · EDUCATION

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

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