California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES
FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,491 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,447). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rotary Club of San Jose Foundationlocal
- Aid for Africa Incportfolio match
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
97% of FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $1k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES’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
FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
90% 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 FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 87% · 2022 86% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
90% of FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Rotary Club of San Jose FoundationlocalCA · funds 76 organizations near you
- Aid for Africa Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Redwoodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- One Days Wagesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allpeoplebehappy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Segal Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Good Works Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Micah 68 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Journey Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Birtcher Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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 FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES?
- FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,491 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,447). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $39,491 in grants to FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,447 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF AFRICAN VILLAGE LIBRARIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing