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FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES

FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,245 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$93k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$107k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Friends of the Alamance County Public Libraries does

Mission

Friends of the Alamance County Public Libraries directs its efforts and funds to enhance the educational and cultural life of the community and promote community awareness and use of the public libraries.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Library programs - supported adult and children's outreach of the alamance county libraries including summer reading initiative, book clubs, passes to area cultural attractions, classes, etc.

    $62,328 spentof which $62,328 as grants
    69% of program spending
  2. Library materials - provided funds to enhance alamance county libraries through collection development.

    $20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants
    22% of program spending
  3. Community reading events - funded events supporting the collective reading of a specific book, including author presentations and other community engagement opportunities.

    $6,804 spentof which $6,804 as grants
    8% of program spending
  4. Community outreach

    $600 spentof which $600 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,732.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($124k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($129k)2018 Revenue 61 ($75k) Expenses 113 ($69k) Net assets 105 ($135k)2019 Revenue 58 ($71k) Expenses 159 ($97k) Net assets 47 ($60k)2020 Revenue 40 ($50k) Expenses 87 ($53k) Net assets 44 ($56k)2021 Revenue 63 ($78k) Expenses 76 ($46k) Net assets 69 ($88k)2022 Revenue 65 ($80k) Expenses 111 ($68k) Net assets 79 ($101k)2023 Revenue 68 ($84k) Expenses 128 ($78k) Net assets 83 ($107k)2024 Revenue 61 ($76k) Expenses 118 ($72k) Net assets 85 ($109k)2025 Revenue 75 ($93k) Expenses 156 ($95k) Net assets 83 ($107k)
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Revenue (75)Expenses (156)Net assets (83)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $135k to $60k (−56%).

$129k
$135k
$60k
$56k
$88k
$101k
$108k
$111k
$109k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’17
$6k
’18
−$26k
’19
−$4k
’20
$32k
’21
$13k
’22
$6k
’23
$4k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $43.

Funder
'17
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC 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.

How concentrated its funding is

FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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

97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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 ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.

TN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’21
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES?
FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,245 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,245 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES?
DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), 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