The Trustees of the Bacon Free Library, a non-profit organization, relies on generous donors and volunteers to successfully maintain the library—our endowment and charitable contributions fund building maintenance and improvements and library programming. 

The Town of Natick has provided financial support for library services since 1951, funding the salaries of our library director and staff as well as providing financial support for materials and some building-related expenses.  

In 1908, the Massachusetts legislature passed a statute forming the library as a charitable corporation, and it has operated in that form for well over one hundred years. The library is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Contributions made are tax-deductible, depending on your circumstances.  The Trustees of the Bacon Free Library manage the corporation.

The library began in the home of Ms. Sarah Griffin Bacon in the 1800s as the Ladies Social Circle Library. After Sarah passed away, her husband, Oliver Bacon, obtained the land where the library is situated and first built a small library.  He then passed away in 1878, and his will established a trust to develop and operate a more substantial structure, which is our current library building.