Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,502 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Friends of the Millis Library does
Mission
Extend and support services of the Millis Public Library.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Author, Music and Poetry Events. Throughout the calendar year, the Friends help support Library programming for all library patrons, including guest speakers and performers. This benefits all library patrons by promoting arts and cultural events free of charge. Approximately 5,000 patrons benefit from these programs.
$9,807 spent44% of program spendingThe purchase of library passes and discount programs. This benefits all library patrons by allowing patrons to use the pass for access to area museums and cultural centers. Approximately 5,000 patrons use the passes annually.
$3,910 spent18% of program spendingProvision of a college scholarship to a high school graduate residing in Millis that intends to pursue higher education in library sciences.
$1,000 spent5% of program spendingPurchase of furniture for Young Adult Room.
$7,447 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,164.
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.
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 $64k to $21k (−67%).
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 MILLIS LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $77 → $134.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 MILLIS 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 MILLIS LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
33% 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 MILLIS LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 MILLIS LIBRARY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502 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 MILLIS LIBRARY has grown faster 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 MILLIS 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.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS 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 MILLIS LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,502 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,502 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS LIBRARY?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE MILLIS LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2 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