Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Friends of Middleboro Library
Friends of Middleboro Library (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,750 to it, the largest being North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc ($3,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $530k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Friends of Middleboro Library does
Mission
It provides funding for programs offered by the staff of the Middleborough Public Library and enhances and enlivens the experience of library users It manages the Peter H. Peirce Homestead at 132 North Main Street Middleborough to further fulfill its purpose of promoting literacy and education within the community. It owns and operates off street parking at 68 North Main Street, Middleborough for the convenience of patrons of the public library and visitors to the Peter H. Peirce Homestead.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs were provided for both adults and children scholarship programs
$8,577 spent65% of program spendingPasses that provided free or reduced admission to museums and parks were purchased for use by library patrons
$1,600 spent12% of program spendingUtillities, repairs, misc otheroperating items for the organization.
$3,113 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,290.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $588k to $1.1M (+80%).
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: 2023 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of Friends of Middleboro Library’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $750.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Middleboro 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Friends of Middleboro Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Friends of Middleboro Library's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Friends of Middleboro Library runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Middleboro 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.
Where the money goes
16% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Middleboro 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 Middleboro Library?
- Friends of Middleboro Library (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,750 to it, the largest being North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc ($3,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Middleboro Library have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,750 in grants to Friends of Middleboro Library, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Middleboro Library?
- North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Middleboro 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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