California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,085 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($168,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $258k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Friends of the Half Moon Bay Library does
Mission
Promote knowledge of the functions, resources, services and needs of the Half Moon Bay Library, and to aid in the development of additional funding for the Library.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
$90,000 grant to the San Mateo County Libraries for the Half Moon Bay Library for: Community youth and adult Meals (serve 40-50 meals every weekday; over 11,000 meals served), the Imagination Library (a free book every month for Coastside children age 0-5; over 100,000 books distributed throughout San Mateo county), the All Abilities Club (20 participants each month; provide support activities and dinner for anyone with disabilities), Big Lift Summers support (provide giveaways for the summer program for rising K-3 students and to purchase math and literacy games to give out to families; connected with 87 participants), and Pescadero Science Night (library staff host 2 to 3 science nights a year at Pescadero Elementary school for students and families to explore STEM based activities; funds pay for supplies and food; each event brings in about 60 participants).
$0 spentof which $90,000 as grants$10,000 grant for the Coastside Community School Backpack Drive (sponsor is the Holy Family Episcopal Church) that serves around 500 children annually. Funds are used to purchase new backpacks and supplies for low-income students from elementary to high school. The Friends of the Library also provide ~500 donated books that are gently used to giveaway to students picking up backpacks.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grants$2,000 grant to the Half Moon Bay Robotics Club to support team scholarships and the development of a new robot.
$0 spentof which $2,000 as grants$2,000 grant to the Beach Break Film Festival for sponsorship of the screening of "The Librarian," a documentary film. The film focuses on knowledge, liberty, environmental, and social impacts that align with libraries' mission of enhancing programs for adults, teens and children of all ages and backgrounds in their community. Preserving books and our history within our library and community is the central theme of the film. Our sponsorship provided ~54 free tickets for students, seniors, and teachers. 113 people attended the screening.
$0 spentof which $2,000 as grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $133k to $53k (−60%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $51k → $3k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 HALF MOON BAY 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 HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
95% of FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $258k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,807 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,085 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($168,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $258,085 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $168,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE HALF MOON BAY LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing