Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC
FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,820 to it, the largest being MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $0
What Friends of the Bacon Free Library Inc does
Mission
Support Bacon Free Library with volunteer hours, grants, and activities for the town of Natick
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Friends of the bacon free library supports the library with volunteer hours as well as grants and activities for the town
$522 spentof which $27,466 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $522.
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 $26k to $0 (−100%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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% · 2021 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
100% of FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC'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 THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC's revenue fell 52% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 BACON FREE LIBRARY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,820 to it, the largest being MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,820 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC?
- MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE BACON FREE LIBRARY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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