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FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES

FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $438 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$128k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$438
Net assets
$435k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Friends of the Temecula Libraries does

Mission

The purpose of the friends of the temecula library is to maintain a corporation composed of citizens who believe that a library is not a luxury, but a necessity of life; to focus public attention on the library; to stimulate the use of the library's resouces and services; to receive and encourage gifts, endowments and bequests to the library; and to staff and maintain bookstores, the net income of which will be utilized for the benefit of the library.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The friends of the temecula library primary source of income is the operation of two library bookstores: one at grace mellman community library and one at the ronald h. Roberts temecula public library. These bookstores take in donations of used books and resell them to the general public. Income raised from the bookstores, memberships,and donations is used to sponsor various programs throughout the year.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  2. The grace mellman community library and ronald h. Roberts temecula public library have a variety of programs for children, teens and adults throughout the year. The largest and most popular of these programs is the 'reading by design summer reading program'. The california summer reading program is a project of the california library association, supported by the us institute of museum and library services under the provisions of the library services and technology act. Friends of the temecula library is a sponsor of this and all of the library programs.

    $64,539 spent
    70% of program spending
  3. Friends of the temecula library assists the grace mellman community library and ronald h. Roberts temecula public library by purchasing new books, supplies & equipment as requested to help support the general operation of both libraries.

    $27,680 spentof which $27,680 as grants
    30% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,219.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($332k)2018 Revenue 110 ($129k) Expenses 98 ($122k) Net assets 102 ($339k)2019 Revenue 101 ($119k) Expenses 81 ($101k) Net assets 108 ($357k)2020 Revenue 46 ($54k) Expenses 43 ($54k) Net assets 108 ($357k)2021 Revenue 57 ($67k) Expenses 36 ($45k) Net assets 114 ($379k)2022 Revenue 95 ($111k) Expenses 75 ($93k) Net assets 120 ($398k)2023 Revenue 103 ($121k) Expenses 83 ($103k) Net assets 125 ($415k)2024 Revenue 108 ($128k) Expenses 87 ($108k) Net assets 131 ($435k)
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Revenue (108)Expenses (87)Net assets (131)

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 $357k to $379k (+6%).

$332k
$339k
$357k
$357k
$379k
$398k
$415k
$435k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
$7k
’18
$18k
’19
$59
’20
$22k
’21
$19k
’22
$17k
’23
$20k
’24
16
months of
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.

201720182019202020222023
Listed777759
Joined·+1+3+0·+5
No longer listed·130·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $249 → $83.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 TEMECULA LIBRARIES’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 TEMECULA LIBRARIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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

54% 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 TEMECULA LIBRARIES.

54%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

54% of FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES'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 $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES?
FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $438 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($238). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $438 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE TEMECULA LIBRARIES 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.

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 2 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