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CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY (West Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,033 to it, the largest being ROARK SULLIVAN LIFEWAY CENTER ($156,418). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.6M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$550k
Net assets
$16M
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Cabell County Public Library does

Mission

The Cabell County Public Library promptly and courteously provides library materials and information to the area's residents to meet their personal, professional, and educational needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Providing library services, materials, and programming, as well as maintaining library buildings.

    $4,500,587 spent$5,635,176 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Increased library usage across all systems.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,500,587.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($6.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.5M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2022 Revenue 134 ($8.3M) Expenses 154 ($6.9M) Net assets 112 ($13M)2023 Revenue 84 ($5.1M) Expenses 94 ($4.2M) Net assets 120 ($14M)2024 Revenue 92 ($5.7M) Expenses 88 ($4.0M) Net assets 135 ($15M)2025 Revenue 92 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.5M) Net assets 145 ($16M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (92)Expenses (100)Net assets (145)Peer revenue range

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 $13M to $16M (+28%).

$13M
$16M
$17M
$18M
$19M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 80% · 2022 55% · 2023 89% · 2024 87% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’21
$1.3M
’22
$922k
’23
$1.7M
’24
$1.1M
’25
6.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Breana Roach Bowen

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed66666
Joined·+0+3+0+1
No longer listed·0301
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $120k → $32k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY’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

CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY.

28%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 53% · 2022 39% · 2023 54% — 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

43% of CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

57% of CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.

IL
OH
CT
WV
MD
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
West Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $410k on record.

Federal$410k
grants $410kcontracts $0
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20
21
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$400k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$10k

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 CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

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 West Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WV

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: 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 CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY?
CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY (West Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,033 to it, the largest being ROARK SULLIVAN LIFEWAY CENTER ($156,418). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $550,033 in grants to CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY?
ROARK SULLIVAN LIFEWAY CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $156,418 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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