Delaware · Nonprofit
Friends of New Castle County Southern Library
Friends of New Castle County Southern Library (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Friends of New Castle County Southern Library does
Mission
Provide Funding and Enrichment to the Appoquinmink Community Library
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Donation to New Castle County, DE to aid in building and maintaining a library in Middletown, DE.
$42,599 spentof which $42,599 as grants90% of program spendingSupport reception at opening of new library
$4,856 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,455.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $689k to $26k (−96%).
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.
99% of Friends of New Castle County Southern Library’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. 2 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Friends of New Castle County Southern 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 New Castle County Southern Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
“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 New Castle County Southern Library's grant income comes from Delaware 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.
Against its field
Friends of New Castle County Southern Library's revenue fell 94% between 2019 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,195 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like Friends of New Castle County Southern 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 New Castle County Southern 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 New Castle County Southern Library?
- Friends of New Castle County Southern Library (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,000 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of New Castle County Southern Library have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $275,000 in grants to Friends of New Castle County Southern Library.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of New Castle County Southern Library?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of New Castle County Southern Library find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2019–2022), and the filings of 2 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