Texas · Nonprofit
Friends of the San Marcos Public Library
Friends of the San Marcos Public Library (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,100 to it, the largest being THE BURDINE JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $216k
What Friends of the San Marcos Public Library does
Mission
To help the greater San Marcos community understand the function, resources, services and needs of the San Marcos Public Library; and raise funds and provide assistance in order to improve the library operations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Library materials-books and materials; digitization of the SM Daily Record-newspaperonine magazines, and GED program. Also hold special programs and support events; such asreading programs; educational exhibits; concerts; art and book programs.
$15,509 spent86% of program spendingThe Friends of the San Marcos Public Library provides two copies for patrons of the library and charges a minimal fee. Expenses are for therental cost and supplies to support the copiers usage.
$2,469 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,978.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.0M to $166k (−83%).
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 6 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.
Board chair
Laura Pratt
Director-Chairperson of booksales
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Friends of the San Marcos 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 San Marcos Public Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
58% of Friends of the San Marcos Public Library's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 San Marcos 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the San Marcos 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 San Marcos Public Library?
- Friends of the San Marcos Public Library (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,100 to it, the largest being THE BURDINE JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the San Marcos Public Library have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,100 in grants to Friends of the San Marcos Public Library, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the San Marcos Public Library?
- THE BURDINE JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the San Marcos Public Library find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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