Minnesota · Nonprofit
ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM
ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA POWER FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $750
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Arrowhead Library System does
Mission
Arrowhead Library System enhances the value of all types of libraries to their communities by cultivating collaboration, technological innovation, and professional development; and enriches the quality of life by providing direct services for those without a public library and access to electronic resources for all people in northeastern minnesota.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Arrowhead Library System provides services to 27 member libraries and rural patrons in seven counties in Northeastern Minnesota. Arrowhead Library System also provides services to schools, academic libraries, and special libraries in the region.
$3,142,595 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,142,595.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.2M to $7.9M (+10%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 92% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 92% · 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM?
- ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA POWER FOUNDATION ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750 in grants to ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM.
- Who is the largest funder of ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM?
- MINNESOTA POWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARROWHEAD LIBRARY SYSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing