South Carolina · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC
FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $139 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $139 to it.
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.
- Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sclocal
- South Carolina Humanities Council Incportfolio match
- Tocker Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $113 → $26.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 GEORGETOWN 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 GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
28% 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 GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 88% · 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 GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of SclocalSC · funds 51 organizations near you
- South Carolina Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Georgia Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tourism Council of Frederick County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
27%
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 GEORGETOWN 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 GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $139 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $139 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE GEORGETOWN LIBRARY INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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