South Carolina · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,874 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Friends of the Beaufort County Library does
Mission
The Friends are an all-volunteer group dedicated to supporting the work and supplementing the resources of our four libraries in Beaufort, Lobeco, St. Helena and Port Royal. Funds typicaly raised through donations, events and projects significantly increase the ability of our libraries to provide programs, services and materials.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Develop and manufacture a StoryWalk installation. A StoryWalk is a movement and literacy boosting project that places an illustrated children's book, taken apart and displayed page by page, along a walking route in several locations within our local community.
Funded the Lucky Day Plan which provides highly sought after books in the library. Lucky Day allows libraries to designate digital copies of high-demand, waitlisted titles in their collection as immediately available to patrons. Participating libraries' patrons can skip-the-line and instantly find, borrow and read these titles on a first-come, first-served basis through the Lucky Day Plan application.
$12,701 spent33% of program spendingProvide supplies, books and literature for adults and children Library Programs including the Children's Summer Reading Program
$25,689 spent67% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,390.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $193k to $249k (+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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $8k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 BEAUFORT COUNTY 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 BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
100% 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 BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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
62% of FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY
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In South Carolina
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY 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 THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,874 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,874 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY?
- COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE BEAUFORT COUNTY LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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