Illinois · Nonprofit
DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,850 to it, the largest being ANDREAS FOUNDATION ($20,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Decatur Public Library Foundation does
Mission
The purposes of the foundation are charitable, literary, and educational. These purposes include the development of programs to focus public attention on library services and to meet library needs in the decatur area; to stimulate and encourage the gifts of funds, books, desirable collections, endowments and bequests to the decatur public library; and to receive, hold, manage, use and dispose of funds and properties of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of the decatur public library.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Development of programs to focus public attention on library services and to meet library needs in the decatur area.
$70,450 spentof which $70,450 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,450.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $100k to $37k (−64%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $2k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’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
DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
54% of DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.
Organizations like DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
69%
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 DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: 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 DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,850 to it, the largest being ANDREAS FOUNDATION ($20,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $52,850 in grants to DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- ANDREAS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DECATUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), 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