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FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY

FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,834 to it, the largest being THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC ($39,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$19k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$111k
2/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Friends of the North Adams Public Library does

Mission

Community programs for the benefit of library patrons and the support and benefit of the north adams public library.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Community programs for the benefit of library patrons and the support and benefit of the north adams public library.

    $14,587 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,587.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($19k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 79 ($15k) Expenses 42 ($8k) Net assets 110 ($69k)2019 Revenue 149 ($28k) Expenses 47 ($9k) Net assets 140 ($88k)2020 Revenue 28 ($5k) Expenses 66 ($13k) Net assets 128 ($80k)2021 Revenue 117 ($22k) Expenses 101 ($20k) Net assets 142 ($88k)2022 Revenue 95 ($18k) Expenses 33 ($7k) Net assets 160 ($100k)2023 Revenue 108 ($20k) Expenses 75 ($15k) Net assets 169 ($105k)2024 Revenue 101 ($19k) Expenses 65 ($13k) Net assets 179 ($111k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (65)Net assets (179)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $69k to $88k (+27%).

$62k
$69k
$88k
$80k
$88k
$100k
$105k
$111k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$876
’17
$7k
’18
$19k
’19
−$8k
’20
$2k
’21
$11k
’22
$6k
’23
$6k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $101 → $5k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
2
2
2

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC 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 NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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

100% of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $334 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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 NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,834 to it, the largest being THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC ($39,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,834 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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