Kansas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,256,813 to it, the largest being GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($844,332). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $25k
What Friends of the Wamego Public Library Inc does
Mission
Raise money to support the services offered by the wamego public library, ensuring that the library continues to be an important resource for the community.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Raise money to support the services offered by the wamego public library, ensuring that the library continues to be an important resource for the community.
$98,695 spentof which $98,169 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,695.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $105k to $25k (−76%).
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.
99% of FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $150.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 WAMEGO 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
68% 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 WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 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
67% of FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO 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. Of the $412k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $845k 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 WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC's revenue fell 99% between 2021 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,256,813 to it, the largest being GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($844,332). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,256,813 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC?
- GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $844,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 7 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