Virginia · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,158,678 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($51,264,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 157 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 157 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkshared fundersportfolio match
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Motion Picture Association Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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: 2017 84% · 2018 79% · 2019 68% · 2020 9% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $15M → $4.6M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES’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
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 103 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Motion Picture Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mercer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McKenna Philip M Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kilts Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Beach Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Koch Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norwottock Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Searle Freedom Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Citycounty Management Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hacks Hackersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$1.3M
- Department of State$515k
- Department of Health and Human Services$30k
- Smithsonian Institution$15k
- Agency for International Development$14k
- National Gallery of Art$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 COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
25%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES?
- COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,158,678 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($51,264,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $53,158,678 in grants to COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,264,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing