California · Nonprofit
Friends of the Santee Library Inc
Friends of the Santee Library Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $483 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($483). 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 FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $483
- Net assets
- $698k
What Friends of the Santee Library Inc does
Mission
To support the Santee Branch, and the City of Santee as they strive to encourage literacy, lifelong learning, and the love of reading throughout our diverse community, to enhance the librarys resources, which will increase the communitys access to information and knowledge, and provide a vibrant cultural gathering place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Friends of the Santee Library operates an excellent used bookstore called The Friendly Used Bookstore. 100% of the items sold are donated by the community and we sell books, music, and DVDs. The usual price range for items is $0.50 to $1.50. The store is operated completely by volunteers. In 2025 there were 43 volunteers who worked 6,719.5 hours. None of the staff is compensated for their hours. Our volunteers consist of retired persons and other adults, local youth acquiring community service hours for school or youth organizations, and adults and youth completing court ordered community service hours.The Friends of the Santee Library Bookstore operates 6 days a week for a total of 24 hours per week.The Friends of the Santee Library provides support to the San Diego County Library, Santee Branch by providing funding for programming, outreach programs and community events, library materials, such as books and periodicals, and other requests from library management. The library provides programming for several thousand patrons each month. During 2025, the Friends of the Library funded 264 programs to 15,702 library patrons and community members. The library has teamed with the…
$60,706 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $60,706.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $583k to $698k (+20%).
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. 0 of the last 7 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 fell $155 → $56.
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 Santee Library Inc’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 Santee Library Inc'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. $483 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 Santee Library Inc
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Santee Library Inc: 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 Santee Library Inc?
- Friends of the Santee Library Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $483 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($483). 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 Santee Library Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $483 in grants to Friends of the Santee Library Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Santee Library Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Santee Library Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), 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