EIN 23-6430426

Jenkins Law Library

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
20
Year formed
1967
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
Description
Jenkins Law Library, the nation's oldest law library, fulfills its mission to bring people and information together within the legal community. The library is dedicated to providing value through outstanding service and comprehensive resources. With an experienced staff, it provides legal research assistance to attorneys and self-represented litigants (SRLs) through a variety of methods in Philadelphia, PA.
Also known as...
The Theodore F Jenkins Memorial Law Library Company; Jenkins Memorial Law Library
Total revenues
$4,798,390
2022
Total expenses
$4,445,922
2022
Total assets
$12,980,690
2022
Num. employees
20
2022

Program areas at Jenkins Law Library

Jenkins Law Library is philadelphia's public Law Library. Founded in 1802, it is america's first Law Library. Through an experienced, dedicated staff, The Library provides legal research assistance to attorneys and self-represented litigants (srls) via print and online resources. It is also a cost-effective provider of continuing legal education (cle) classes.the Library offers affordable access to legal research tools required to practice Law and assist srls, such as bloomberg Law, vitallaw, lexis and westlaw. The Library's research platform provides over 225,000 online treatises in addition to its extensive current and historic collection of print volumes available on-site. Keeping with its mission to collect, organize and disseminate legal information, The Library digitizes and indexes materials unavailable online elsewhere, including a comprehensive archive of 108,459 Pennsylvania trial court opinions, 1,098,370 Pennsylvania appellate briefs and records, 2,224 philadelphia city solicitor opinions and 1,542 Pennsylvania legislative histories.as part of its public function, Jenkins assists srls who arrive daily, seeking access to pa-specific forms and information to help them understand their rights in a wide variety of extremely personal and emotionally charged legal problems including employee rights, tenant eviction, protection from abuse orders, debtor/creditor issues, bankruptcy, divorce, and custody issues. Our librarians guide srls to print and online resources. Srls are informed that The librarians are not attorneys and cannot give legal advice. There is no limit to The time we spend with an individual, beyond staff capacity.in 2022, 785 slrs visited The Library to conduct research and we gave out 792 free form packets. We received 529 questions from srls via email, phone and visits.since april 2019, our librarians have been assisting srls at The first judicial district's family court help center on tuesdays and thursdays for three hours with filing simple divorces. Jenkins' librarians are trained by court staff to assist srls in understanding The divorce process and to help with filling out forms. Srls are informed that The librarians are not attorneys and cannot give legal advice. Complicated issues are referred to The lawyer referral and infomation services (lris) or legal service organizations. During The covid -19 pandemic, The help center was closed but we continued to help srls via The telephone, email or by appointment in The Library. We returned to The family court help center in august of 2021. In 2022 we helped 1,084 visitors.family court administrative judge margaret t. murphy thanked The leadership at Jenkins, The members of The staff and The board of Jenkins for assisting srls who appear throughout The family court and in particular at family's court help center. She stated, "your assistance and support has been a tremendous help! Thank you." Family court judge ida chen refers to Jenkins as a "justice partner" with The family court.another public function that Jenkins provides is free membership to philadelphia nonprofit legal service agencies. Jenkins also provides at nominal cost membership and services to philadelphia related and/or budgeted agencies, as well as free membership to all judges in The first judicial district and The Pennsylvania appellate courts.jenkins membership program runs on a rolling calendar year. For 2022, we had approximately 8,690 members which includes judges, students, attorneys and staff at firms of all sizes and within a diverse set of practice areas. Our heaviest attorney users are solo attorneys and small firms who are unable to afford The resources that large Law firms maintain. Most of The Library's onsite visits were from firms with 10 or fewer attorneys. Large firms have significantly reduced The size of their libraries and as such rely on Jenkins for legal resources not available to them via their online subscriptions. In addition, they utilize The research expertise of our librarians on a daily basis.our librarians responded to over 3,500 requests for assistance in 2022. Jenkins had more than 100,000 unique users visit our website.jenkins' librarians continue to publish blogs to help our users with research. In 2022, 72 blogs were created and they were viewed 5,593 times. The top blog posts were digitized historical newspaper archive; create state-by-state surveys using bloomberg chart builder; british caselaw on vlex; Jenkins Law Library we're 220 years young!the Library has 81 research guides available from its website. Of The 81, 13 focus on assisting self-represented litigants. These guides were viewed 50,594 times in 2022. Since covid-19, The Library's services have been in even bigger demand and some of The services or changes we adopted then are still being employed. For example, our classes are still being conducted remotely instead of in person and curbside delivery/return of materials is still available. Although Jenkins has always been strong in customer service satisfaction, The unusual circumstances of The pandemic elicited many accolades which The Library continues to receive.

Who funds Jenkins Law Library

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Barnett Sobel Charitable Trust Patricia Cramer Tteec / O Lynda McfeeleyFor General Use$7,500

Personnel at Jenkins Law Library

NameTitleCompensation
Ida WeingramExecutive Director$89,004
Nancy GarnerPast Executive Director and Corporate Secretary / Executive Director and Corporate Sec. / Assistant Director for Knowledge Servicesresearch Services$110,079
Ida K ChenVice President$0
Theodore Ted SimonPresident / Board Member$0
Christopher DifuscoTreasurer;board Appointed / Treasurer;board Appointed - Nonvoting / Treasurer;board Appointed / Assistant Secretary / Assistant Treasurer$0
...and 4 more key personnel

Financials for Jenkins Law Library

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$3,171,957
Program services$970,653
Investment income and dividends$536,126
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$119,654
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$4,798,390

Form 990s for Jenkins Law Library

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-10-31990View PDF
2021-122022-11-04990View PDF
2020-122021-06-09990View PDF
2019-122021-04-02990View PDF
2018-122020-01-23990View PDF
...and 9 more Form 990s
Data update history
January 19, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
January 18, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 2 new personnel
December 27, 2023
Received grants
Identified 2 new grant, including a grant for $7,500 from Barnett Sobel Charitable Trust Patricia Cramer Tteec / O Lynda Mcfeeley
November 25, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
July 7, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 2 new personnel
Nonprofit Types
SchoolsLibraries and archivesCharities
Issues
Education
Characteristics
MembershipsState / local levelReceives government fundingEndowed supportTax deductible donations
General information
Address
1801 Market St 900
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Website URL
jenkinslaw.org/ 
Phone
(215) 574-7900
Facebook page
JenkinsLawLibrary 
Twitter profile
@jenkinslawlib 
IRS details
EIN
23-6430426
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1967
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
B70: Libraries, Library Science
NAICS code, primary
51912: Libraries and Archives
Parent/child status
Independent
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