Public Charity

BOSTON LIBRARY CONSORTIUM INC

Based in FRANKLIN, MA, BOSTON LIBRARY CONSORTIUM INC operates as a Public Charity. The organization reported $1.8M in revenue, $1.6M in expenses, $2.5M in total assets for fiscal year 2025. Imperigo tracks 3 reported grant relationships connected to this organization totaling approximately $225K.

EIN: 042605198 FRANKLIN, MA Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$1.8M
Total Expenses$1.6M
Total Assets$2.5M
Grant Records3
Funding Total$225K
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

BOSTON LIBRARY CONSORTIUM, INC. (THE ORGANIZATION OR "BLC") WAS INCORPORATED IN 1977 AS AMASSACHUSETTS NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION. BLC IS A LIBRARY CONSORTIUM SERVING PUBLIC AND PRIVATEUNIVERSITIES, LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES, STATE LIBRARIES, SPECIAL RESEARCH LIBRARIES, AND PUBLIC LIBRARIESPRIMARILY IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. AS OF MAY 31, 2025, BLC HAD TWENTY-FIVE MEMBER INSTITUTIONS INMASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, NEW HAMPSHIRE, RHODE ISLAND, AND VERMONT, AS WELL AS ONE AFFILIATEINSTITUTION IN CALIFORNIA. EACH MEMBER, EXCLUDING THE AFFILIATE INSTITUTION, IS REPRESENTED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS BY THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN OFITS PRINCIPAL LIBRARY. BLC EMPOWERS A COLLATION OF LIBRARIES TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE, INFRASTRUCTURE, ANDRESOURCES AT SCALE.

Where $100 goes at Boston Library Consortium Inc

How Boston Library Consortium Inc divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$79 Programs the work itself
$21 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $79 for programs

$40
Resource sharing
51% of program spending
$26
Professional developement
32% of program spending
$13
Effective october 1, 2023, blc entered into an agreement with the project reshare steering committee to be the fiscal sponsor of project reshare
17% of program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

DIRECTOR Alicia Hansen
DIRECTOR Amanda Rust
DIRECTOR Andrew White
DIRECTOR Anne Langley
PRESIDENT Bryn Geffert
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Charles Barlow

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Education
$225,000 3 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $1.8M $1.6M $2.5M
2024 $1.5M $1.5M $1.3M
2023 $1.3M $1.4M $1.1M
2022 $816K $763K $1.0M
2021 $772K $658K $1.1M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $772K to $1.8M (+131%), with total assets most recently reported at $2.5M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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