- Revenue 2025
- $1,980,220
- Expenses 2025
- $1,290,359
Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 16 N WALNUT 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).
Other organizations at this address
1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us
We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.
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FRIENDS OF THE JOSEPH T SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY
EIN 23-2149300
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
THE JOSEPH T. SIMPSON LIBRARY IS THE COMMUNITY'S LIBRARY, RESPONSIVE TO NEEDS AND DESIRES FOR KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, ENRICHMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, AND CONNECTION.
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SERVING A RAPIDLY GROWING COMMUNITY IN SOUTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA, THE JOSEPH T. SIMPSON PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVES AS A VITAL COMMUNITY RESOURCE FOR LEARNING AND LEISURE. BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO AN ARRAY OF TRADITIONAL AND INNOVATIVE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES, SIMPSON LIBRARY IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OVER 156,000 VISITORS EACH YEAR. IN 2025, SIMPSON LIBRARY CIRCULATED 588,873 ITEMS TO LIBRARY CARDHOLDERS AND PRESENTED 2,722 PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES WITH MORE THAN 44,000 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE.
Expenses $1,044,737 · Revenue $48,666
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Sue ErdmanSUE ERDMAN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (UNTIL 02/2026)
- Total calculated
- $106,240
- From this org
- $82,740
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $23,500
- Hours/week
- 37.5
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Arn HowaldARN HOWALD
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/PUBLIC SERVICES
- Total calculated
- $54,438
- From this org
- $54,438
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 37.5
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Elizabeth SeidelELIZABETH SEIDEL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AS OF 11/2025)
- Total calculated
- $8,438
- From this org
- $8,438
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 37.5
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Thomas TopolskiTHOMAS TOPOLSKI
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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G Edward BlumG EDWARD BLUM
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Sandra McIntyreSANDRA MCINTYRE
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Patricia LeibPATRICIA LEIB
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Belinda LawrenceBELINDA LAWRENCE
ASSISTANT TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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David CarllDAVID CARLL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Karen CochranKAREN COCHRAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Heather KnisleyHEATHER KNISLEY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Rob MoranROB MORAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Corrin RuggieroCORRIN RUGGIERO
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Dwight UtzDWIGHT UTZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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
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2025
- Revenue
- $1,980,220
- Expenses
- $1,290,359
- Contributions
- $1,908,188
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $1,335,668
- Expenses
- $1,121,041
- Contributions
- $1,626,064
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $1,972,277
- Expenses
- $1,067,232
- Contributions
- $1,976,502
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,204,588
- Expenses
- $1,038,673
- Contributions
- $1,213,427
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,110,471
- Expenses
- $886,701
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,642,803
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,190,108
- Expenses
- $948,838
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,301,828
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $933,429
- Expenses
- $963,228
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,968,085
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $946,947
- Expenses
- $940,092
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,891,839
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $899,783
- Expenses
- $879,238
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,922,777
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $882,378
- Expenses
- $839,066
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,872,096
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $879,160
- Expenses
- $815,757
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,803,551
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $867,631
- Expenses
- $797,811
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,739,679
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $831,825
- Expenses
- $802,025
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,657,065
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $767,239
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,597,677
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
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2024 PROGRAM SPECIFIC SUPPORT - DESIGNATIONS
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2024 LIBRARY SUPPORT
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2025 EDUCATIONAL
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2024 EDUCATIONAL
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2023 EDUCATIONAL
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2025 LIBRARY SUPPORT
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2023 LIBRARY SUPPORT
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2022 2022 DISTRIBUTION
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$10,150
2024 EDUCATION
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2022 PROGARM SPECIFIC SUPPORT - DESIGNATIONS
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 11 November 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.