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FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES
FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,539 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($235,105). 2 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
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Friends of the North Carolina Accessible Books and Library Services does
Mission
To promote the development of excellent library service to the blind and physically handicapped of our state; to foster closer relations between our library and the citizens of our state; to encourage and assist in forming local groups or chapters; to promote knowledge of the library's functions, resources, services and needs; and to provide the means for members to exchange ideas, information and experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Braille and large print items is a program that provides large print books, braille books, and dvds for use by blind and visually-impaired patrons of north carolina public libraries. During the 2025 fiscal year, the friends purchased 381 large print books and 74 dvds.
$17,059 spentof which $11,581 as grants58% of program spendingAudio and recordings is a program that provides the hindenburg software subscription which enables the library to record narration for books, magazines, and newsletters for the use of blind and visually-impaired library patrons, as well as the duxbury software subscription which is used for converting print files into braille format for embossing. During the 2025 fiscal year, the friends recorded 2 digital books and 22 digital magazine issues.
$4,522 spentof which $1,937 as grants16% of program spendingReading programs is a program that sponsors prizes for reading programs, reading challenges, writing contests, and discussion groups. During the 2025 fiscal year, the friends provided funds to purchase prizes for writing and reading contests at the library. The eastern nc and western nc braille challenges totaled 59 participants, the summer and winter reading programs totaled 163 participants (155 adults, 8 youth), and the writing contest garnered 6 entries. The friends also organized a vip book discussion group in raleigh with 98 participants, and a charlotte book discussion group with 66 participants. All told the friends had 439 participants or attendees in its fy2025 programs.
$7,585 spentof which $1,785 as grants26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,166.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+28%).
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.
27% of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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 3 funders, grant income fell $27k → $23k.
2 of 3 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 NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES’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 CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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 CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin 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 NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES?
- FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,539 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($235,105). 2 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 NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $235,539 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES?
- TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $235,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ACCESSIBLE BOOKS AND LIBRARY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 3 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