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GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION

GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being THE DOROTHY L JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$30k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$0
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Glendale Library Foundation does

Mission

The specific purposes for which this corporation is formed are to solicit, raise, administer and invest funds to support the development and expansion of current and future programs, services, capital improvements, and other related activities for the city of glendale library, arts and culture department.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

Provide support for the city of glendale library, arts & culture department.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

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 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($206k)2018 Revenue 856 ($511k) Expenses 481 ($56k) Net assets 321 ($660k)2019 Revenue 17 ($10k) Expenses 357 ($42k) Net assets 306 ($629k)2020 Revenue 50 ($30k) Expenses 117 ($14k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820192020
Revenue (50)Expenses (117)Net assets (0)

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 $629k to $0 (−100%).

$206k
$660k
$629k
$0
2017201820192020
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
$455k
’18
−$32k
’19
$16k
’20
35
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.

201820192020
Listed11710
Joined·+1+6
No longer listed·53
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $12k.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION’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

GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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

38% 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 GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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 GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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 GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION

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.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 40%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: 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 GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being THE DOROTHY L JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,000 in grants to GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
THE DOROTHY L JOHNSTON FOUNDATION 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 GLENDALE LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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