New Hampshire · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being THE BURKEHAVEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $87k
What Friends of the Abbott Library does
Mission
The goal of the Friends is to support, coordinate and enhance the activities of the Library and to stimulate and promote good library service in the community by doing the following: Working in cooperation with the librarians and the library trustees in support of the library. Maintaining an association of persons interested in good library service. Assisting in development, promotions and completion of library services, facilities, programs and community services. Soliciting gifts, bequests, endowments and other financial contributions above and beyond the library's annual budget. Acting as liaison between the community and the library, and increasing public awareness of the library resource.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Friends support weekly programs and events for adults and youth, including guest speakers, summer reading programs, and educational classes for the community.
$34,646 spent95% of program spendingThe Friends purchase online services for the library such as Kanopy, Great Courses, and Digital Magazines and provide books and book displays to further literacy in the community.
$0 spent0% of program spending3. The Friends provide scholarships for high school seniors to attend college.
$2,000 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,646.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $106k to $86k (−18%).
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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT 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 THE ABBOTT LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 83% — 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
FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 2 states 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,500 to it, the largest being THE BURKEHAVEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,500 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY?
- THE BURKEHAVEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ABBOTT LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Friends of the Abbott Library →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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