Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,365 to it, the largest being EVAN & MARION HELFAER FOUNDATION ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $141k
What Friends of the Elm Grove Library does
Mission
The mission is to focus public attention on library services and to raise funds to support library collections and special projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided cash contributions to support various library improvements
$38,000 spent94% of program spendingProviding programs for adults and children of the elm grove area. The programs served more than 200 total persons during the year.
$1,126 spent3% of program spendingSupported local community programs with smaller monetary donations, such as $1,000 to support the tonowanda elementary school pto book vending maching program.
$1,500 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,626.
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 2022 to 2023, from $75k to $108k (+45%).
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.
95% of FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY’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. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
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 ELM GROVE 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 ELM GROVE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 86% · 2020 86% · 2021 90% · 2022 83% · 2023 90% — 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
100% of FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY's grant income comes from Wisconsin 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY
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 Wisconsin
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,365 to it, the largest being EVAN & MARION HELFAER FOUNDATION ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $32,365 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY?
- EVAN & MARION HELFAER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ELM GROVE LIBRARY 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.
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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 2021–2025), 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