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CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY

CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,790 to it, the largest being THE CHAMPLIN FOUNDATION CO PNC DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY - TRUSTEE ($87,375). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$533k
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$192k
Grants received
$633k
Net assets
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve5.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($362k) Expenses 100 ($392k) Net assets 100 ($448k)2020 Revenue 100 ($361k) Expenses 95 ($372k) Net assets 97 ($436k)2021 Revenue 107 ($388k) Expenses 101 ($394k) Net assets 100 ($450k)2022 Revenue 118 ($428k) Expenses 106 ($413k) Net assets 102 ($455k)2023 Revenue 157 ($568k) Expenses 109 ($426k) Net assets 133 ($597k)2024 Revenue 121 ($439k) Expenses 114 ($446k) Net assets 134 ($600k)2025 Revenue 147 ($533k) Expenses 128 ($503k) Net assets 141 ($633k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (147)Expenses (128)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 80% · 2020 83% · 2021 79% · 2022 76% · 2023 71% · 2024 78% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
19
$11k
20
$5k
21
$14k
22
$142k
23
$7k
24
$30k
25
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $86k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)43% 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 CROSS' MILLS 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

CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

43% 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 CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY.

46%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 43% · 2022 50% · 2023 87%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

80% of CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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

CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 5 states in all.

NY
MA
PA
RI
NC

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

20
21
22
23
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY

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 Rhode Island

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CROSS' MILLS 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 CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $191,790 to it, the largest being THE CHAMPLIN FOUNDATION CO PNC DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY - TRUSTEE ($87,375). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $191,790 in grants to CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
THE CHAMPLIN FOUNDATION CO PNC DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY - TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $87,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CROSS' MILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13funders 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