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Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc

Provide financial support for the libraries of Los Altos Los Altos Main and Woodland branches of the Santa Clara. We fund library programs materials and projects by selling donated used books. We fund library and Community Center programs.

$55k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$49,043
Largest grant, FY2025
$49,043
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$55k0%
FY20231$113k0%
FY20221$13k100%
FY20211$105k0%
FY20201$105k0%
FY20191$144k0%
FY20182$179kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$708kRecreation & Sports$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Santa Clara County Library District$678,1036n/a
Los Altos Police Department$22,2362n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

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About Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc

How much does Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc give?
Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc reported 2 grants totaling $55,174 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Santa Clara County Library District ($678k), Los Altos Police Department ($22k).
Does Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc based?
Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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