Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,963 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Chelmsford Friends of the Library does
Mission
To support the Chelmsford Public Library with programs and museum passes and community events and supplemental resources
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Contributions to the Chelmsford Public Library to fund adult and Children's programs, provide museum passes, supplement library resources
$52,059 spent55% of program spendingFinal payment for Library audio visual equipment from restricted funds received in prior year
$9,107 spentof which $15,000 as grants10% of program spendingTo provide funding for the purchase and installation of Library Hold Lockers at the Main Branch
$33,242 spent35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,408.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $134k to $165k (+23%).
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.
90% of CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Marilyn Carey
Membership Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $878 → $16k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE 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
CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — 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
66% of CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY has grown faster than half of the 1,015 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE 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 CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY?
- CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,963 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $46,963 in grants to CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 5 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