Florida · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($48). 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 FY2024
- $313k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $48
- Net assets
- $826k
What Friends of the Tarpon Springs Public Library Inc does
Mission
This organization exists to support awareness of and programs for the tarpon springs public library in tarpon springs, florida.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Adult programs: funding for speakers, instructors and materials to provide programs the library offers to senior citizens.
$1,957 spent$615 earned by the program2% of program spendingTarpon springs library grants: direct support of literacy programs offered by tarpon springs library.
Business center: provide sight courses, reference materials, online data bases, and other related materials used to invest, develop, market and improve area businesses offered at the tarpon springs public library. Also provide reference materials for investors.
$87,000 spentof which $87,000 as grants98% of program spendingYouth programs & scholarships: activities to bring children into the library and to promote literacy and cultural expansion. Some specific examples are books for distribution at the town holiday parade, crate items for teen events, fees for theatrical presentations. Also, tarpon springs area high school students compete for scholastic recognition and scholarships presented by the tarpon springs library. Volunteer recognition: the friends fund half of the cost of recognition of volunteers who have worked in either the library or friends of the library events or activities throughout the year. Expenses include refreshments and small gifts.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,957.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $613k to $828k (+35%).
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.
85% of FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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 rose $7 → $16.
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 TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC 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 TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC 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. $48 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 TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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 TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC 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 TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($48). 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 TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $48 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE TARPON SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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