Florida · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,748 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($175,445). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $293k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Friends of the Library of Collier County Inc does
Mission
Friends of the library of collier county, inc. (the "organization") is a not-for-profit corporation organized in 1957 and incorporated in april, 1961. The organization was formed to establish a free public library system in collier county. The ongoing mission of he organization is to support and to enrich the services of the collier county public library system. The organization provides library related programs, including sponsoring authors, special events for children, education tuition, books and travel expenses for county library employees for seminars and college credit classes in library science. The organization also provides funds for library media, library equipment and furniture, internet connections, training and conference fees and expenses for library employees, an adult lecture series and programs for young people. These activities are funded from donations, member dues, earnings from investtments and proceeds from fund-raising functions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide collier county public libraries with print, e-books, tapes and educational programs, with which it benefit all collier county residents.
$683,277 spent$997,275 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $683,277.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $2.4M (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $150 → $11k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 OF COLLIER COUNTY INC’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 LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 52% · 2021 75% · 2022 95% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.
“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
22% of FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
94% of FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC'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. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $275k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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 OF COLLIER COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: 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 LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,748 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($175,445). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% 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 OF COLLIER COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $292,748 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC?
- COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,445 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 14 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