Alabama · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY
FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,726 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Friends of the Public Libraries of Cullman County does
Mission
The Friends of the Public Libraries of Cullman County is a non-profit group of citizens who believe that a good library is essential to the cultural, educational and economic well-being of cullman county. Their mission is to work in cooperation with the libaries and library administration within cullman county, in support of the library.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Imagination library
Imagination library
$43,973 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,973.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $31k to $50k (+61%).
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 PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $52.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY’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 PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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 PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 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 PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226 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 PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY: 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 PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY?
- FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,726 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,726 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY?
- DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF CULLMAN COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2023–2024), 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