North Carolina · Nonprofit
Friends of the Transylvania County Library
Friends of the Transylvania County Library (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,107 to it, the largest being BAILEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $512k
What Friends of the Transylvania County Library does
Mission
Friends of the Librarys mission is to enhance and support library services by underwriting programs and events, publishing an informative newsletter, and making special purchases.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult Services - Speakers, community activities, instructors, musical performances, programs, and materials.
$68,830 spent100% of program spendingYouth Services - Summer reading program, writing contests, author visits, book clubs, and community events.
Administrative Services - Support for the bookstore and annual book sale, newsletter, as well as donor and member support services.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,830.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $408k to $327k (−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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50 → $22.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Transylvania County 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Friends of the Transylvania County Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 96% · 2022 91% · 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
Friends of the Transylvania County Library draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149 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 Transylvania County Library
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Transylvania County Library · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Transylvania County Library: 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 Transylvania County Library?
- Friends of the Transylvania County Library (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,107 to it, the largest being BAILEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Transylvania County Library have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,107 in grants to Friends of the Transylvania County Library, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Transylvania County Library?
- BAILEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Transylvania County Library find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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