Illinois · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,950 to it, the largest being JACK MILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $174k
What Friends of the Highland Park Public Library does
Mission
Provide funds & services to public library
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Equipment purchases,library programs & maintenance for the public library
$28,835 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,835.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $121k to $159k (+31%).
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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Suzanne Zweic
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $200 → $50.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC 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 HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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: 2018 50% · 2019 87% · 2020 67% · 2021 57% · 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC 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 Illinois
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,950 to it, the largest being JACK MILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $6,950 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- JACK MILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE HIGHLAND PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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