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FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC

FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,402 to it, the largest being FUNDACION PUERTORRIQUEA DE LAS HUMANIDADES INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$875k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$5.0M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Fundacion Biblioteca Rafael Hernandez Colon Inc does

Mission

Library which serves as the archive for documents and other materials related to the former governor's tenure. Conduct studies on different topics related to the economic development of Puerto Rico.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Gubernatorial Library archives for documents, records and other materials, such as video and audio tapes related to the work and achievements of former Puerto Rico Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon as a public servant and former First Lady Lila Mayoral Wirshing.

    $1,070,235 spentof which $639,235 as grants$815,111 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Prepare idividuals to recognize the importance of leadership in public service keeping in mind the actual Puerto Rican society. The participants shall be developed as leaders in public service, emphasizing collaboration and collective goals.

    $60,000 earned by the program

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,070,235.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($407k) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2018 Revenue 90 ($368k) Expenses 43 ($719k) Net assets 95 ($6.2M)2019 Revenue 265 ($1.1M) Expenses 40 ($672k) Net assets 101 ($6.6M)2020 Revenue 74 ($301k) Expenses 34 ($576k) Net assets 88 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 151 ($614k) Expenses 43 ($718k) Net assets 86 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue 158 ($643k) Expenses 42 ($704k) Net assets 85 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 122 ($495k) Expenses 51 ($861k) Net assets 79 ($5.2M)2024 Revenue 215 ($875k) Expenses 64 ($1.1M) Net assets 76 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (64)Net assets (76)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8.5M to $7.8M (−8%).

$8.1M
$7.9M
$8.5M
$7.8M
$7.8M
$7.4M
$7.1M
$7.1M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 56% · 2019 78% · 2020 50% · 2021 42% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.3M
’17
−$351k
’18
$405k
’19
−$275k
’20
−$104k
’21
−$61k
’22
−$366k
’23
−$195k
’24
10
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.

Chief executive

Dora M Hernandez Mayoral

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1616151515121212
Joined·+0+3+0+6+3+1+0
No longer listed·0406610
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $127 → $93.

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

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON 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

FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

100% 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 FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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

100% of FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON 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. $402 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

Against its field

FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.

Federal$30k
grants $30kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$30k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC?
FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,402 to it, the largest being FUNDACION PUERTORRIQUEA DE LAS HUMANIDADES INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,402 in grants to FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC?
FUNDACION PUERTORRIQUEA DE LAS HUMANIDADES INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FUNDACION BIBLIOTECA RAFAEL HERNANDEZ COLON INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 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