Tennessee · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC
FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,590 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $281k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $883k
What Friends of the Tellico Village Library Inc does
Mission
Provides library services for the community of Tellico Village and surrounding counties. This includes books, DVDs, computer services, Library of Things and community services. This is done with volunteer hours both at the circulation desk and Fundraising activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through memberships, fundraising events and grants, the friends of the tellico village library provided library services to over 3,963 active / registered library users (services are open to all county residents). In 2025, there were 58,591 ebook downloads. We exchanged 1,112 books with other libraries and our total circulation was 32,643. The fotvl provided 210 free adult education classes, lectures and presentations. The fotvl also provides a telescope lending program (very popular actually), literacy backpacks for children, and memory care materials for residents and their caretakers.we introduced audio players in late 2024 and "a library of things in late 2025." nine volunteers deliver books and materials to home-bound residents. We support and maintain "little libraries" for habitat for humanity residents and other localities. The fotvl is constantly buying and updating books and media materials: as of march 2026, we held approximately 35,000 books, media, and audio materials, which include many large print books. The usda certified the fotvl as ada accessible and one that supports residents with special "needs."
$202,685 spentof which $9,109 as grants$250,252 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $202,685.
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. 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 $1.9M to $1.8M (−9%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 25% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE 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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $750 → $491.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 TELLICO VILLAGE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 89% · 2022 53% · 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
72% of FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE 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. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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 TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,590 to it, the largest being EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,590 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC?
- EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE TELLICO VILLAGE LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 4 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