Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,600 to it, the largest being PHOEBE R & JOHN D LEWIS FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $0
What Belmont Library Foundation Inc does
Program
The organization's largest direct charitable activity is to raise funds for the construction of a new library in the town of belmont, massachusetts. The effort is primarily fund raising and promotion of the project among citizens of belmont.
$339,799 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $568k to $0 (−100%).
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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,600 to it, the largest being PHOEBE R & JOHN D LEWIS FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $3,600 in grants to BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- PHOEBE R & JOHN D LEWIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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