South Carolina · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,886 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Friends of the Greenville County Library System does
Mission
To support the greenville county library system
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During fy25, the organization continued to support various programs and publications of the greenville county library system.
$33,626 spentof which $33,626 as grants65% of program spendingThe organization assists the greenville county library by storing books and publications that are being taken out of circulation. These books are sold to the general public. Proceeds benefit the library.
$12,713 spent24% of program spendingDuring fy25, the organization funded a scholarship through the community foundation of greater greenville's greenville county library staff education fund.
$2,500 spentof which $2,500 as grants5% of program spendingFriends also had various programmatic expenditures for membership and miscellaneous activities for fy25.
$3,153 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,992.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $108k to $143k (+33%).
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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $721 → $24.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM’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 GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
96% 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 GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 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
96% of FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM'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 $700 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
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 GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: 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 GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM?
- FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,886 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $19,886 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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