Illinois · Nonprofit
Everylibrary Institute Nfp
Everylibrary Institute Nfp (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,772 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($636,002). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $382k
What Everylibrary Institute Nfp does
Mission
EveryLibrary Institutes purpose is to operate exclusively for educational and charitable purposes including primarily research writing publishing and related activities concerning public academic and school libraries in the United States.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Continued to support and expand Fight for the First to conduct education and outreach about the First Amendment in libraries and schools and the We Are Stronger Than Censorship campaign.
$125,000 spent51% of program spendingSupports to state libraries training and technical assistance on public policy issues communications and partnerships.
$45,000 spent$100,000 earned by the program18% of program spendingContinued to manage the FundLibraries digital fundraising platform for the benefit of libraries and library organizations to collect small dollar donations with related marketing and outreach support.
$32,000 spent13% of program spendingSupports to state libraries training and technical assistance on public policy issues communications and partnerships.
$45,000 spent$11,000 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $247,000.
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.
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 $51k to $629k (+1135%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Everylibrary Institute Nfp’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
John Chrastka
Chief Executive Officer Chairman President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $162k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 Everylibrary Institute Nfp’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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
Everylibrary Institute Nfp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 Everylibrary Institute Nfp.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 43% · 2023 77% — 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
50% of Everylibrary Institute Nfp's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
89% of Everylibrary Institute Nfp'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 $138k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Everylibrary Institute Nfp runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Everylibrary Institute Nfp receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $494k on record.
- CONSULTANTS$492k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$2k
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 Everylibrary Institute Nfp
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.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- EveryLibrary · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Everylibrary Institute Nfp: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Everylibrary Institute Nfp?
- Everylibrary Institute Nfp (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,772 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($636,002). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Everylibrary Institute Nfp have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,198,772 in grants to Everylibrary Institute Nfp, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Everylibrary Institute Nfp?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $636,002 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Everylibrary Institute Nfp 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.
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 16 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