Arkansas · Nonprofit
Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries
Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being Arkansas Humanities Council ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $0
What Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries does
Mission
The purpose of this organization shall be to promote community participation in the functions, services, resources and needs of the central arkansas library system; to assist in promoting knowledge of and participation in library programs; to support the development of programs for the extension and improvement of the library's resources and services; and to stimulate gifts, endowments and bequests to the library.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Provide support to the central arkansas library system, including support for outreach programs to the central arkansas community educating and involving participants in reading.
$117,168 spentof which $88,030 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $117,168.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $63k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Central Arkansas 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
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.
Organizations like Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Central Arkansas Library System Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Central Arkansas 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries?
- Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $60,000 to it, the largest being Arkansas Humanities Council ($60,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $60,000 in grants to Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries?
- Arkansas Humanities Council is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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