- Revenue 2024
- $8,355,632
- Expenses 2024
- $7,832,975
Program services were 63.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B700
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 150 EMPIRE 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
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ENGAGES LEARNERS, INSPIRES THINKERS, AND CONNECTS DIVERSE COMMUNITIES.
Activities or mission (Part I)
PROVIDE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES FOR ALL RHODE ISLANDERS.
-
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY (PPL) PROVIDES FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY SERVICES THROUGH ITS RICH AND HISTORIC PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, EXTENSIVE INFORMATION RESOURCES, THOUGHT-PROVOKING EXHIBITIONS, IMPACTFUL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, AND EXPERT STAFF. DURING THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2025, AN ESTIMATED 120,975 PEOPLE VISITED THE LIBRARY. TOTAL USAGE OF LIBRARY RESOURCES AND MATERIALS EXCEEDED 1,781,516. PUBLIC ACCESS COMPUTERS WERE USED 18,770 TIMES, AND THE PUBLIC ACCESSED LIBRARY WI-FI 235,931 TIMES. LIBRARY STAFF PROVIDED 54,743 INFORMATION AND REFERENCE SERVICES TO PATRONS. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXTENSIVE PROGRAMS OFFERED.
Expenses $4,970,232 · Revenue $75,636
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.
-
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
RODNEY E LOPEZ
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
DEREK FARIAS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
JUAN WILSON
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 2 related
-
CHARLOTTE ABOTSI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANGEL ARRAZOLA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR PHILIP CHAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR LAINA A CROWTHERS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JESSICA DAVID
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELIZABETH DEBS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4 + 2 related
-
LISA DECUBELLIS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ROBERT W EDWARDS JR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
FRANK E EYETSEMITAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LOUIS GOLDMAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DILLON M JONES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAY JOYNES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BILLY KEPNER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BEVERLY LEDBETTER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KATHERINE A MESSIER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JANE O' FARRELL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ISABELLA R PORTER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
EVELYN RANONE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MEGHAN REGO
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 2 related
-
MARKEEM V RODRIGUES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ROBERT K TAYLOR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- $8,355,632
- Expenses
- $7,832,975
- Contributions
- $8,198,343
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $8,827,177
- Expenses
- $8,268,071
- Contributions
- $8,649,093
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $7,764,095
- Expenses
- $8,768,272
- Contributions
- $7,411,308
- 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
-
2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,598,972
- Expenses
- $8,415,479
- Assets (EOY)
- $26,808,137
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,478,555
- Expenses
- $7,213,538
- Assets (EOY)
- $36,987,936
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,535,662
- Expenses
- $6,065,521
- Assets (EOY)
- $33,332,898
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,931,345
- Expenses
- $7,619,243
- Assets (EOY)
- $23,692,802
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,880,907
- Expenses
- $5,350,413
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,579,465
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,748,166
- Expenses
- $5,987,590
- Assets (EOY)
- $14,822,986
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,731,804
- Expenses
- $5,244,782
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,355,625
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,489,068
- Expenses
- $4,550,551
- Assets (EOY)
- $16,037,546
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,338,924
- Expenses
- $3,812,625
- Assets (EOY)
- $16,705,907
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
-
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
$3,953,070
2023 OPERATING SUPPORT
-
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
$3,825,428
2024 OPERATING SUPPORT
-
2024 EDU - EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS (PRIMARY)
-
2023 ECONOMIC SECURITY
-
2022 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
-
2022 PPL EDUCATION, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, & CULTURAL PROGRAMMING
-
UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC
$37,450
2024 DONOR DESIGNATION/GRANT
-
2024 SEE PART IV
-
2023 SEE PART IV
-
2022 SEE PART IV
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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
-
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION · RI · controlled entity
-
501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION · RI
Declared as related by
-
PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
On its 2024 return
-
On its 2024 return
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.