Florida · Nonprofit
BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,410 to it, the largest being Helios Education Foundation ($321,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Broward Public Library Foundation Inc does
Mission
To raise&steward private funds for the enhancement of broward county library. The organization also supports creative adult&children's literacy programming, innovative library initiatives,&collection enhancements.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The broward public library foundation supports more than a dozen programs and services for broward county library, including free sat/act preparation classes for up to 550 high school students; a 10-week summer learning program for children and teens; two children's literacy festivals featuring free book giveaways; a scientist in residence program at the north lauderdale library and the moon rock exhibit and programming at the main library. Through the interest generated by their funds in the library foundation's endowment, the african american research library and the lauderhill towne centre library have provided reading and adult success literacy coaches and significantly expanded community programming.
$616,683 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $616,683.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $12M (−20%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 6% · 2022 10% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Joey Crawford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $35k → $129k.
4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 79% · 2019 38% · 2020 32% · 2021 64% · 2022 34% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $312k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$301k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$12k
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 BROWARD PUBLIC 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% 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 BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,111,410 to it, the largest being Helios Education Foundation ($321,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,111,410 in grants to BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- Helios Education Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $321,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 31 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