Colorado · Nonprofit
Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District
Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $548 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($548). 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 FY2024
- $260k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $548
- Net assets
- $329k
What Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District does
Mission
The Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District supports the Pikes Peak Library District in providing programs and spaces that cultivate belonging, personal growth and strong communities. We achieve this by: - Growing and retaining a thriving, diverse membership. - Recruiting and leading strong, dedicated volunteers. - Providing affordable books for library patrons through our bookstores and book sales. - Raising money through book sales, programs, membership and donations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cash Grants and assistance to the Pikes Peak Library District and various branches. This is the primary purpose of the Friends.We contributed $167,362 to PPLD in 2025. Our contributions helped to support the following programs sponsored by PPLD: - All Pikes Peak Reads - Mountain of Authors - Winter Adult Reading Program - Book Browse - PPLD Summer Adventure Lunch - Regional History Symposium - PPLD Summer Advanture Staff Luncheon - Staff Recognition and Support for District & Branch Libraries - PPLD Foundation Inaugural Pickleball Tournament - Courtside Sponsor In Addition, the contributions helped support specific Branch Library needs, staff support and appreciation.
$171,362 spent67% of program spendingPersonal, supplies and other costs related to the operations of the Friends bookstores and sales. - The Friends has 587 Family MembershipsBook Sales continued at 21c, East, Penrose and all branch loctions. We continued to sell books online via ebay, Amazon and other online storefronts. The Big Book Sales were held at East on March 6 - 9, 2025 and October 09 - 12, 2025..
$74,213 spent29% of program spending2025 Activities - the annual meeting was held in person on January 25, 2025. Rita Jordan, President, presented the year in review including financials, Presented the 2025 Volunteer of the Year Award to Sheila Flower. Donna Guthrie, 2024 winner of the Golden Quill Award, was the keynote speaker. - Literary Awards was held on June 7, 2025. Peter Heller was the Frank Waters Award receipient and PJ and Patrick Anderson was the Golden Quill Recipient. There were 150 guesta at the event. - Sip N' Shop - was held on December 8, 2024. This event to recognize and honor library staff and Friends volunteers, 70 people attended the event.
$10,979 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,554.
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.
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 $277k to $296k (+7%).
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.
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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $92 → $157.
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 Pikes Peak Library District’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 Pikes Peak Library District'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. $548 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.
Organizations like Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pikes Peak Library District · exempt
- Pikes Peak Library District · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District: 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 Pikes Peak Library District?
- Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $548 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($548). 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 Pikes Peak Library District have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $548 in grants to Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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