Florida · Nonprofit
Bookleggers Library Inc
Bookleggers Library Inc (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,617 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $331k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $690k
- Net assets
- $259k
What Bookleggers Library Inc does
Mission
Bookleggers gives donated books to everyone through creative programs, mobile outreach, and Miamis first and only free bookstore.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adventure-Leggers: Miamis only youth and comic book festival for kids. Adventure-Leggers is a yearly festival exploring creativity through comic books, literary adventure and interactive programming. The festival offers interactive experiences focused on hands-on informal family learning centered around STEAM activities as well as music, artist-led workshops, technology, creative-professional workshops and more. Adventure-Leggers aims to promote a lifelong love of reading while also introducing kids to creative pursuits that spark their curiosity.
$76,480 spent39% of program spendingLibraries and Collections: The main program of Bookleggers Library is the free bookstore housed at the Bakehouse Art Complex open 5 days a week to the general public. The collection is entirely donation based and people, institutions and businesses drop off approximately 125 books per week. Approximately 25 people visit the shop per day and the Organization has distributed over 125,000 free books in the last 13 years.
$66,777 spent$20,506 earned by the program34% of program spendingDigital Programs: Booklandia and Storytime are our flagship digital programs.
$28,970 spent15% of program spendingTraveling Book Trailer: Launched at the end of 2023, the Traveling Book Trailer is fully equipped with custom-mobile friendly shelving and roll out book carts. It opens with ramps on both sides, allowing for smooth foot traffic, and ample space for visitors. It allows a pop-up bookshop at essentially any location throughout Miami-Dade County. It allows people to access books and cultural programming outdoors and in neighborhoods which may not have access to bookstores or libraries.
$22,539 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,766.
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 $187k to $388k (+107%).
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 1% · 2023 16% · 2024 20% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Bookleggers Library Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Nathaniel Sandler
Board Chair and Founding Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $217k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Bookleggers 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
Bookleggers Library Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 Bookleggers Library Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 58% · 2023 69% — 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
100% of Bookleggers Library Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Bookleggers Library Inc has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Bookleggers Library Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $786 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $786
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Bookleggers Library 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 Bookleggers 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 Bookleggers Library Inc?
- Bookleggers Library Inc (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,617 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bookleggers Library Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $689,617 in grants to Bookleggers Library Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bookleggers Library Inc?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bookleggers 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing