Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC
FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Friends of Sequoya Branch Library Inc does
Mission
The Friends of Sequoya Branch Library's exempt purpose is to support the Madison Public Library Sequoya Branch and the Madison Public Library system raising funds by having book sales with donated books and through memberships and donations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
$50,628 was given to the Madison Public Library Sequoya Branch to purchase books, e-book subscriptions, library programs and to provide items needed by staff not supplied by the city budget. Our support benefited the 27 staff members at the Sequoya Branch Library, the 253,719 patrons who used the library in 2025 and the 13,530 who participated in the 505 programs sponsored by the Friends of Sequoya Branch Library.
$0 spentof which $50,628 as grants$50,000 was given to the Madison Public Library Foundation to support the building of a new branch library to benefit an area that desperately needs library service in northeast Madison called The Imagination Center.
$0 spentof which $50,000 as grants
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $163k to $116k (−29%).
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.
37% of FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC’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
FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.
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 SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC?
- FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SEQUOYA BRANCH LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 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