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OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY

EIN 24-0795971 WILKES BARRE, PA

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Revenue 2024
$2,370,600
Expenses 2024
$2,276,185

Program services were 70.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
71 S FRANKLIN 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY AT ITS MAIN LOCATION AND THREE BRANCHES LOCATED IN PLAINS AND WILKES-BARRE, PA

  • PROVIDE A SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND MATERIALS FOR THE COMMUNITY. THIS COLLECTION INCLUDES MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, A LARGE PRINT COLLECTION, BOOKS ON CD, BOOKS ON CASSETTE, DVDS, AND VIDEOS. THE LIBRARY OFFERS FREE INTERNET SERVICE ON COMPUTER TERMINALS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN ON COMPUTER TERMINALS IN A CHILDREN'S AREA. A VARIETY OF ADULT PROGRAMS ARE ALSO OFFERED.

    Expenses $1,610,597 · Revenue $117,163

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.

  • Fr Tim Alleman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Stacia Arnaud

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Anthony Bartoli

    1ST VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Sarah Borland

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Tony Brooks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • The Honorable George Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Patricia Finan Castellano

    DIRECTOR EME

    Total calculated
    $0
  • William H Conyngham

    DIRECTOR EME

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Marc Decowski CPA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Traci Cross

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Nicholas Dye

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Patrick Endler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Alan S Hollander Esq

    DIRECTOR EME

    Total calculated
    $0
  • John Lisman Esq

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • John A Bednarz Jr Esq

    DIRECTOR EME

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Molly Hoegen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jamie Johns

    2ND VICE PRE

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Linda Joseph

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Stacy Kile

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Linda Kubiak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Pamela Lacroix

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Carolyn McLaughlin-Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Amanda Ouellette

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • John Panzitta

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Eileen Rosengrant

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

The first 25 listed. 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
    $2,370,600
    Expenses
    $2,276,185
    Contributions
    $1,556,387
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,823,067
    Expenses
    $1,990,833
    Contributions
    $1,170,632
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,650,700
    Expenses
    $1,985,907
    Contributions
    $1,152,009
    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
    $2,025,427
    Expenses
    $1,994,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,236,907
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,628,274
    Expenses
    $1,917,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,039,021
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,546,424
    Expenses
    $2,065,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,433,117
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,268,262
    Expenses
    $2,105,641
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,277,069
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,968,874
    Expenses
    $2,024,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,424,622
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,549,640
    Expenses
    $2,091,996
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,396,769
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,728,005
    Expenses
    $1,872,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,143,691
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,886,055
    Expenses
    $2,064,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,921,316
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,196,084
    Expenses
    $1,985,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,884,261
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,132,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,338,338

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.