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FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE CAMBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$256k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$2.3M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Fairfield Public Library Foundation Inc does

Mission

To solicit, receive and administer gifts, grants and bequests and to disburse funds for the general welfare, maintenance and improvement of the fairfield public library.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing assistance for the welfare, maintenance and improvement of the fairfield public library.

    $79,333 spentof which $79,333 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $79,333.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($170k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 108 ($183k) Expenses 145 ($60k) Net assets 94 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 43 ($74k) Expenses 166 ($69k) Net assets 105 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 39 ($67k) Expenses 112 ($46k) Net assets 119 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 102 ($173k) Expenses 91 ($38k) Net assets 133 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 41 ($69k) Expenses 160 ($66k) Net assets 108 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 96 ($163k) Expenses 115 ($48k) Net assets 127 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 151 ($256k) Expenses 197 ($82k) Net assets 142 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (197)Net assets (142)Peer revenue range

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 $2.2M to $1.7M (−22%).

$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.3M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$129k
’17
$123k
’18
$5k
’19
$21k
’20
$135k
’21
$3k
’22
$115k
’23
$174k
’24
11
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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Listed99101181087
Joined·+0+2+5+2+3+4+1
No longer listed·0145162
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY 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.

Where its funders are

100% of FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin68% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & 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

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • City of Fairfield · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being THE CAMBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
THE CAMBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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