Michigan · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY
FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,164 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($814). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Friends of the Royal Oak Public Library does
Mission
Raise funds to sponsor library programs and buy materials.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Normal programming - adult, youth and young adult speakers, activities and programs including summer reading programs for the children and adults of royal oak and the surrounding communities.
$15,615 spent80% of program spendingElectronic resources - subscriptions and purchases of online resources, electronic books, audio books, video and dvd programming and early literacy programming for the citizens of royal oak and the surrounding communities.
$3,800 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,415.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $26k to $42k (+59%).
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.
13% of FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $206.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 ROYAL OAK 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 ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
70% 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 ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 100% · 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
70% of FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY'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 $350 that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $814 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 ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 ROYAL OAK PUBLIC 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC 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 ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,164 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($814). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,164 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $814 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL OAK PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2018–2024), 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