Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($21). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $21
- Net assets
- $121k
What Friends of Bedford Public Library does
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to promote the Bedford Free Public Library and to increase the awareness and use of the Library through financial support and programmatic efforts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Adult programs held via zoom included 6-lecture series, geneology group, and many others. We also fund summer reading programs for children, teens, and adults and many other programs in the Children's Room. All are very well attended, and we have had to add a second session for some Children's programs to accommodate all the patrons.
$20,737 spent58% of program spendingAssets donated to the Library this year, DVDs and items for the Children's Room as well as items for the Internet of Things.
$3,232 spent9% of program spendingPasses to 15 local and greater Boston museums, granting free or reduced-cost admissions for the bearer plus family. These passes are very popular, with over 430 uses in the last year.
$6,465 spent18% of program spendingTAG Team, an afternoon program for teens.
$2,619 spent7% of program spendingOther program services
$2,418 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,471.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $113k to $127k (+12%).
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.
42% of FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY’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 FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
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 BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: 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 FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($21). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $21 in grants to FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 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