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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,507 to it, the largest being FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $773k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $199k
- Net assets
- $494k
What Benjamin Franklin Society Library Inc does
Mission
The Society Library's mission is to create a fully intentional, collaborative humanity which functionally negotiates ideological differences in a manner that maximizes freedom in being through access to archived information.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Information Gathering, Archiving, and Analysis: The Society Library devotes substantial effort to collecting, researching, and archiving information about as many detectable points of view as possible on complex social and political issues in order to build digital library collections. These efforts include collecting the arguments, claims, sentiments, opinions, evidence, and data found within scholarly articles, government reports, documentaries, news, television, books, textbooks, podcasts, classroom materials, websites, various social media, as well as receiving bulk collections from institutional partners or through in-person interviews and group sessions. This information is then curated and organized into online reference library collections through various manual and technological means, including AI tools like automated research and analysis. The purpose of the library is to assist the public in searching for the truth in a less biased, more rigorous, and more expedient manner. Although The Society Library curates, cleans, and enriches information, it does not censor, aim to bias, nor desire to corrupt information. We hold ourselves to high ethical standards, which are…
$284,213 spent64% of program spendingInformation Delivery, Education, Utility, and Access: REVIEW /UPDATE Once information is thoroughly researched, organized, and published in library collections, The Society Library brings both the information itself and information literacy programming directly to the public. This is done through: 1.) An online, browsable library database for active learners to easily access information on social and political issues. 2.) Visualizations that summarize the content in the library to provide different ways for learners to access the information, which includes products like: Vote By Reason, Papers, Catalog, and our AI Agent technology. 3.) Educational programs, such as internships, in which we teach our rigorous research methodology and logic-based media literacy curriculum. 4.) Educational content, including written publications, educational videos, instructional demos, and tutorials. 5.) Partnerships that may apply or disseminate the data through other research and educational projects for public benefit, usually by utilizing our API-accessible information gathering tools.
$5,991 spent1% of program spendingTargeted Services and Consultation: To support the sustainability of the organization, The Society Library provides research and consulting services based on its expertise, methodology, and technological capabilities. These services include: building content databases, fact-checking services, building online FAQs, analyzing legislation, and consulting to improve the logical decision-making capabilities of groups and individuals. The Society Library selects clientele based on their alignment with The Society Library's mission and for the ability to advance The Society Library's internal technological development, public-benefit programming or its internal training. Clients include private individuals, city-level public officials, federal-level public officials, non-partisan activist organizations, news organizations, and private companies. The Society Library is not interested in advancing any partisan agenda whatsoever. The Society Library only works with non-partisan activists groups and government officials on the basis that the subject of research interest is aligned with the Society Library's topic scope and The Society Library is not asked to compromise its conduct, in which…
$2,188 spent0% of program spendingRefund of FY23 Donation
$149,910 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $442,302.
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 2023 to 2024, from $203k to $494k (+144%).
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.
100% of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $88k → $5k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY 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
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 25% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $84k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC: 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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC?
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,507 to it, the largest being FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $198,507 in grants to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC?
- FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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