Please see the various donation levels and corresponding amounts below:
| Rev. Francis Wayland & Rev. John Burt Wight, Founders Reverend Wayland: President, Brown Univ., American Baptist minister, educator, offered & paid a challenge grant of $500 to establish a public library since matched by Wayland Town Meeting, January 1848. Reverend Wight: Wayland resident, Unitarian Universalist Minster, Mass. State Representative, introduced a bill to establish & maintain Free Public Libraries, signed into law on May 24, 1851. | $1000+ |
| Lydia Maria Child, Reformers Wayland Abolitionist, feminist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and library benefactor. | $500 – $999 |
| James Sumner Draper, Literary Lions Wayland resident, farmer, writer, surveyor, Town Librarian from 1865-1885, 19th century historian of Wayland. | $250 – $499 |
| Sarah E. Heard, Benefactors Wayland resident, First Wayland female Librarian from 1885-1901, among the first ten women to register to vote in Wayland. | $100 – $249 |
| Warren Gould and Cynthia C. Roby, Contributors Wayland benefactors and donors Warren G. Roby donated land and funds to construct the 1900 library building; Cynthia Roby, his wife and executrix, donated her funds for the running expenses of this library. | Under $100 |
| Anonymous | Any amount |