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FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY

FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,903 to it, the largest being THE FERRIDAY FUND-CHARITABLE TRUST # 615 ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$24k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$200k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of the Kingston Library does

Mission

Support the Kingston Library. See Schedule O.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We raise and donate funds for Kingston Library programs, materials, and other needs.

    $2,630 spentof which $2,676 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,630.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($18k) Expenses 100 ($85) Net assets 100 ($131k)2022 Revenue 102 ($18k) Expenses 24980 ($21k) Net assets 96 ($126k)2023 Revenue 147 ($26k) Expenses 9076 ($8k) Net assets 118 ($154k)2024 Revenue 102 ($18k) Expenses 11502 ($10k) Net assets 130 ($169k)2025 Revenue 136 ($24k) Expenses 6522 ($6k) Net assets 153 ($200k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (136)Expenses (6522)Net assets (153)Peer revenue range

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 $169k to $200k (+18%).

$131k
$126k
$154k
$169k
$200k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’21
−$3k
’22
$18k
’23
$8k
’24
$19k
’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 KINGSTON 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 KINGSTON LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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

84%
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

FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.

NY
PA
KY

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

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin77% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

33%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY: 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 KINGSTON LIBRARY?
FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,903 to it, the largest being THE FERRIDAY FUND-CHARITABLE TRUST # 615 ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,903 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY?
THE FERRIDAY FUND-CHARITABLE TRUST # 615 is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE KINGSTON LIBRARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2025), 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