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GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY

GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,359 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC ($31,897). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$18k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$79k
Net assets
$0
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Grand Junction Imagination Library does

Mission

To increase literacy and school preparedness by making books available to all children under the age of five living in the grand juncton, co area at no cost to their family.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. During 2022 the organization provided 34,767 books to pre school children in the grand junction, co. Area. The program changed from 2,450 children receiving books in jan. 2022 to 2,500 children receiving books in december 2022. In addition to the listed expenses, the organization received donations in-kind valued at $3,182

    $65,233 spentof which $65,233 as grants$18,131 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,233.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($63k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2021 Revenue 101 ($64k) Expenses 112 ($68k) Net assets 93 ($47k)2022 Revenue 29 ($18k) Expenses 108 ($65k) Net assets 0 ($0)
202020212022
Revenue (29)Expenses (108)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 2021 to 2022, from $47k to $0 (−100%).

$50k
$47k
$0
202020212022
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.

2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’20
−$3k
’21
−$47k
’22
8.4
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.

202020212022
Listed996
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·13
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $2k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION 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

GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% 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 GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY.

40%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 55% · 2019 54% · 2020 73% · 2021 28% · 2022 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

60% of GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION 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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION 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 GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY?
GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,359 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC ($31,897). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $79,359 in grants to GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY?
UNITED WAY OF MESA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRAND JUNCTION IMAGINATION LIBRARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 8 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