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FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC

FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,652 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($104,114). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$95k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$243k
Net assets
$16k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Friends of the Columbia County Traveling Library Inc does

Mission

Friends of the columbia county traveling library is organized to promote education and literacy throughout columbia county, pa by supporting the columbia county traveling library authority through fundraising, volunteering, and community outreach.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The friends of the columbia county traveling library acts as the officialfundraising arm of the columbia county traveling library authority.substantially all of the organizations activities work to acheive this mission.

    $99,887 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,887.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($87k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2021 Revenue 71 ($63k) Expenses 71 ($62k) Net assets 124 ($8k)2022 Revenue 110 ($99k) Expenses 84 ($73k) Net assets 528 ($34k)2023 Revenue 91 ($82k) Expenses 109 ($95k) Net assets 323 ($21k)2024 Revenue 106 ($95k) Expenses 115 ($100k) Net assets 246 ($16k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (106)Expenses (115)Net assets (246)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $8k to $34k (+325%).

$6k
$8k
$34k
$21k
$16k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’20
$2k
’21
$26k
’22
−$13k
’23
−$5k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $31k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC.

43%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 42% · 2022 51% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.

“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

80% of FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
MD

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

’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC

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 Pennsylvania

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05Profile & governance

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 COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC?
FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,652 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($104,114). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $242,652 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC?
FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $104,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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