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FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,350 to it, the largest being LAVERTY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$60k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$161k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Friends of the Indianola Public Library Foundation does

Mission

Support the activities of the Indianola Public Library

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Funded Summer Reading Program

    $0 spentof which $9,827 as grants
  2. Funded Reading Programs and Events

    $0 spentof which $3,000 as grants
  3. Funded Special Projects

    $0 spentof which $41 as grants

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($16k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2020 Revenue 105 ($17k) Expenses 32 ($5k) Net assets 177 ($72k)2021 Revenue 77 ($12k) Expenses 55 ($8k) Net assets 187 ($76k)2022 Revenue 135 ($22k) Expenses 114 ($17k) Net assets 198 ($80k)2023 Revenue 121 ($20k) Expenses 88 ($13k) Net assets 213 ($86k)2024 Revenue 284 ($46k) Expenses 117 ($18k) Net assets 282 ($114k)2025 Revenue 375 ($60k) Expenses 89 ($14k) Net assets 398 ($161k)
2017202020212022202320242025
Revenue (375)Expenses (89)Net assets (398)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $114k to $161k (+41%).

$40k
$72k
$76k
$80k
$86k
$114k
$161k
2017202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$872
’17
$12k
’20
$4k
’21
$4k
’22
$6k
’23
$28k
’24
$47k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’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 INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

IA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,350 to it, the largest being LAVERTY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,350 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
LAVERTY 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 INDIANOLA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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