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FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY

FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$60k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$107k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Friends of the Silver Bay Public Library does

Mission

Charitable and educational

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Dolly Parton Imagination Library early literacy program - provides books for local youth ages birth-5. This year we had 77 kids in the program

    $1,428 spent
    21% of program spending
  2. Program Support - We provide funds to support the annual reading programs, arts and literacy programming and volunteer support. This year our program support provided experiences to 2363 people

    $4,317 spent
    64% of program spending
  3. Books Purchasing - each year we provide funds for the library to buy books for its collection.

    $1,000 spent
    15% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,745.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Deb Birkeland

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY 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.

Where its funders are

FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

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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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25k to it.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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In Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY?
FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY?
The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE SILVER BAY PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2024–2024), 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