Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,321 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Agnesian Healthcare Incshared funderslocal
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio match
- Fond Du Lac Area United Way Incshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $48k → $25k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 BRANDON PUBLIC 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 BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 89% · 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
FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you typical among the 197 organizations that share them.
- Agnesian Healthcare Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fond Du Lac Area United Way Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiple Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maine Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $473k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$473k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $231,321 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $231,321 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing