Alabama · Nonprofit
DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,621 to it, the largest being CMF HOUSTON LIBR ($219,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $330k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Dothan Houston County Library System does
Mission
To provide materials and services which will help the community residents, and present and future affiliates of the wiregrass area to obtain information meeting their personal, educational and professional needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Furnishing literary and educational materials to the general public
$1,534,392 spent$226,740 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,534,392.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.4M to $5.0M (−7%).
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 86% · 2018 83% · 2019 83% · 2020 85% · 2021 71% · 2022 73% · 2023 74% · 2024 74% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Ashley Carroll
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $65k.
From the IRS filings of DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM’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
DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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: 2018 71% · 2019 69% · 2020 61% · 2021 95% · 2022 48% · 2023 55% — 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 DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: 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 DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM?
- DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,621 to it, the largest being CMF HOUSTON LIBR ($219,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $329,621 in grants to DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM?
- CMF HOUSTON LIBR is the largest funder on record, with $219,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOTHAN HOUSTON COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 9 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