California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,377 to it, the largest being Lon V Smith Foundation ($5,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library does
Mission
The Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library was founded to help maintain and preserve the library's tradition of service to the community of beverly hills and its surrounding area. The friends is dedicated to raising funds to supplement, to enhance, and to enrich the library's children, teen and adult programs, collections and facilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
History/digitizing - the friends support the history/digitizing by providing funds to the library for the purchase the overdrive software.
$30,000 spent42% of program spendingOther collections - the friends support the children's library collections by purchasing the awe learning program to support school readiness and literacy in the community.
$20,402 spent29% of program spendingSpeakers - the friends provide for a place for speakers to discuss topics related to adult programs, children's programs, friend's presentation and teen programs.
$8,425 spent12% of program spendingLibrary enhancements - the friends support library enhancements by providing funds for the purchase ipads and other items for the library.
$6,597 spent9% of program spendingHomebound deliveries - the friends support the homebound delivery program by providing funds for the delivery of books to patrons who are ill or aged, and cannot visit the library in person.
$5,250 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $70,674.
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.
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 $814k to $1.1M (+31%).
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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $24.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC 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 BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 67% · 2019 33% · 2020 40% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
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 BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC 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 BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,377 to it, the largest being Lon V Smith Foundation ($5,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $11,377 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- Lon V Smith Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 7 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