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ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC

ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,029 to it, the largest being STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC % JAMES NEWCOMB ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$437k
Net assets
$3.4M
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Estes Valley Library Friends and Foundation Inc does

Mission

The organization exists for the sole benefit of the estes valley public library district, providing valuable advocacy efforts and private financial support. The organization benefits the library by advocating for the publicly funded institution as a vital community asset, nuturing donor relationships and sustaining goodwiill with its members, soliciting, receiving, and administrating gifts, bequests, and grants, building an endowment fund to ensure the library's sustainability, managing investments, and recruiting motivated volunteers to work in support of the organization's mission.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide historical and literacy programs to patrons of the estes valley public library.

    $519,544 spentof which $400,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $519,544.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($367k) Expenses 100 ($266k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 63 ($229k) Expenses 140 ($374k) Net assets 86 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 92 ($336k) Expenses 142 ($378k) Net assets 92 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 96 ($351k) Expenses 92 ($246k) Net assets 105 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 104 ($382k) Expenses 111 ($296k) Net assets 118 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 116 ($424k) Expenses 144 ($383k) Net assets 103 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 114 ($417k) Expenses 228 ($608k) Net assets 102 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 147 ($540k) Expenses 234 ($622k) Net assets 116 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 540 ($2.0M) Expenses 303 ($807k) Net assets 196 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (540)Expenses (303)Net assets (196)

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 $2.5M to $3.9M (+54%).

$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$3.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$101k
’17
−$144k
’18
−$41k
’19
$105k
’20
$86k
’21
$41k
’22
−$190k
’23
−$82k
’24
$1.2M
’25
8.6
months of
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.

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Listed11101111811111516
Joined·+0+4+5+3+3+0+9+4
No longer listed·13560053
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $46k → $19k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC’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

ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

58% 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 ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC.

34%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 59% · 2021 76% · 2022 42% · 2023 58% — 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

25% of ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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

57% of ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC'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 $189k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.

CO
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $248k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 19%Fundraising 17%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC?
ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,029 to it, the largest being STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC % JAMES NEWCOMB ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $437,029 in grants to ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC?
STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC % JAMES NEWCOMB is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ESTES VALLEY LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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