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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $355 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($355). 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
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $355
- Net assets
- $53k
What Friends of the Library Friendswood Texas does
Mission
The purpose of the Friends of the Library is to support equipment acquisition, library staff and library programs as needed for the Friendswood Texas public library and its employees that would otherwise not be in the City of Friendswood budget for the library.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Remote lending library kiosk. Funds paid to City of Friendswood for purchase.
$0 spentof which $69,400 as grantsFive (5) Gale Cengage GED scholarships ($1100@)
$0 spentof which $5,500 as grantsLibrary promotional items for National Library week (500 items distributed to library patrons).
$0 spentof which $1,701 as grantsFour (4) concerts (2 solo, 2 ensemble) at library sponsored. Approx. 200 attendance total each
$0 spentof which $1,600 as grantsSubscription ($1000@) for Kanopy film screen service for library and its patrons (approx. 500 uses).
$0 spentof which $1,000 as grantsExpenses for Texas Library Association attendance (Expenses for 1 library staff member attending).
$0 spentof which $665 as grantsLibrary architectural rendering for library renovation or replacement. Funds paid to City of Friendswood.
$0 spentof which $14,000 as grantsMovie night refreshments. Approx. 25 attendees for approx. 25 movies.
$0 spentof which $325 as grantsLibrary staff appreciation including breakfasts (2), luncheons (2), and polo shirts. (21 library staff)
$0 spentof which $1,324 as grants2 adult crafts sessions. Approx. 30 attendance total.
$0 spentof which $125 as grantsLibrary renovation. Youth area mural
$0 spentof which $1,400 as grantsSummer reading program prizes.
$0 spentof which $252 as grantsHoliday decorations for library. Funds paid to city of Friendswood.
$0 spentof which $7,000 as grants
The 13 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $8k to $55k (+568%).
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 LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $95 → $80.
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 LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS’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 LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS'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. $355 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 LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
17%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS?
- FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $355 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($355). 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 LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $355 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY FRIENDSWOOD TEXAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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