Colorado · Nonprofit
Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation
Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $430 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $430
- Net assets
- $125k
What Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation does
Mission
Friends of the Lafayette Library is a non-profit organization that funds various library programs resources and equipment for the Lafayette Colorado Public Library. Examples of some of the programs that rely exclusively on Friends support are: Makerspace a 3-D printing laboratory where members of the public can schedule time to come to the library and make use of 3-D printing equipment and software; BookPage a printed hard copy recommendation guide for readers highlighting the best new books across all genres as chosen by their editors; Aunt Flo a program providing free feminine hygiene products in all library restrooms; Books On The Bus a program providing free books for children K-3. The books are too damaged to sell and are donated to the Boulder County school buses for kids riding the bus to read and or take home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
General funding for various library programs resources and equipment.
$30,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants98% of program spendingMakerspace. A 3-D printing laboratory where members of the public can schedule time to come to the library and make use of 3-D printing equipment and software.
$0 spent0% of program spendingBookPage. A printed hard copy recommendation guide for readers highlighting the best new books across all genres as chosen by their editors.
$756 spentof which $756 as grants2% of program spendingAunt Flo a program providing free feminine hygiene products in all library restrooms.
$0 spentof which $920 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,756.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $106k to $125k (+18%).
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.
85% of Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $128 → $57.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Lafayette 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Lafayette Library Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of the Lafayette 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
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 Lafayette Library Foundation: 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 Lafayette Library Foundation?
- Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $430 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $430 in grants to Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Lafayette Library Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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