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LUZERNE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM

EIN 23-2731975 WILKES BARRE, PA

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Revenue 2024
$2,298,309
Expenses 2024
$2,312,508

Program services were 89.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B71Z
Classification
1000
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

LCLS IS FUNDED BY GRANTS RECEIVED EITHER INDIRECTLY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR DIRECTLY FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AND LUZERNE COUNTY. THE PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM IS TO COLLECT AND DISBURSE FUNDS TO THE MEMBER LIBRARIES IN LUZERNE COUNTY. THE SYSTEM ALSO RECEIVES GRANTS TO FUND PROJECTS FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE MEMBER LIBRARIES.

  • THE SYSTEM COLLECTS FUNDS, THEN DISBURSES THE FUNDS TO THE MEMBER LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT LUZERNE COUNTY.

    Expenses $2,071,270 · Grants $2,071,270

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Rae Anusevicz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Carmine Carrato

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Susan Maza Esq

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Rosella Fedor-Purcell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Dana Foglia

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Colleen Garrison

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Marilou Hinchcliff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Barbara Lach

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Mary-Ellen McFarland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Lois Ostrowski

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Jim Reinmiller

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Judy Rittenhouse

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Roberta Rowlands

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Karen Shuster

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Rebecca Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Gina Thackara

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $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
    $2,298,309
    Expenses
    $2,312,508
    Contributions
    $2,294,571
    Grants paid
    $2,071,270
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,429,527
    Expenses
    $2,282,717
    Contributions
    $2,427,516
    Grants paid
    $2,044,598
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,036,868
    Expenses
    $2,060,211
    Contributions
    $2,035,992
    Grants paid
    $1,861,048

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
    $2,036,246
    Expenses
    $2,092,584
    Assets (EOY)
    $242,178
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,125,409
    Expenses
    $2,091,287
    Assets (EOY)
    $748,730
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,996,724
    Expenses
    $1,896,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $264,698
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,901,232
    Expenses
    $1,891,900
    Assets (EOY)
    $257,135
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,918,751
    Expenses
    $1,883,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,648
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,915,971
    Expenses
    $1,890,713
    Assets (EOY)
    $254,402
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,857,124
    Expenses
    $1,872,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $762,101
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,911,760
    Expenses
    $1,864,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $284,946
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,960,380
    Expenses
    $1,960,028
    Assets (EOY)
    $297,675
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,932,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $367,548

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

  • THE OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY

    $679,561

    2024 SEE PART IV

  • THE OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY

    $677,779

    2023 SEE PART IV

  • THE OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY

    $611,489

    2022 SEE PART IV

  • HAZLETON AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY

    $481,124

    2023 SEE PART IV

  • HAZLETON AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY

    $478,030

    2024 SEE PART IV

  • HAZLETON AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY

    $440,194

    2022 SEE PART IV

  • HOYT LIBRARY

    $241,715

    2024 SEE PART IV

  • HOYT LIBRARY

    $228,876

    2023 SEE PART IV

  • HOYT LIBRARY

    $209,214

    2022 SEE PART IV

  • BACK MTN MEMORIAL LIBRARY

    $194,183

    2024 SEE PART IV

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.