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HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR

HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,670 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($364,986). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$233k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$494k
Net assets
$224k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Hester J Hodgdon Libraries For does

Mission

To provide for the first public lending library in nicaragua, the san juan del sur biblioteca & to assist others throughout central america to set up their book systems and aid community center services

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. San juan del sur biblioteca is the first functioning lending library

    $77,506 spent$159,972 earned by the program
    90% of program spending
  2. San juan del sur mobile project support is the first book mobile avail

    $8,879 spent$72,625 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $86,385.

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

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($32k)2021 Revenue 144 ($160k) Expenses 116 ($102k) Net assets 288 ($92k)2022 Revenue 130 ($145k) Expenses 175 ($153k) Net assets 239 ($76k)2023 Revenue 163 ($182k) Expenses 112 ($98k) Net assets 498 ($160k)2024 Revenue 209 ($233k) Expenses 131 ($115k) Net assets 697 ($224k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (209)Expenses (131)Net assets (697)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 2022 to 2023, from $107k to $177k (+66%).

$45k
$115k
$107k
$177k
$224k
20202021202220232024
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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’20
$59k
’21
−$9k
’22
$83k
’23
$117k
’24
8.6
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed645810
Joined·+1+1+3+2
No longer listed·3000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $18k.

7 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR’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

HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR.

74%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 42% · 2021 60% · 2022 42% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.

“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

50% of HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2023, 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

92% of HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.

DE

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $454k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Against its field

HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin50% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR

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

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 39%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
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 HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR?
HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,670 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($364,986). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $493,670 in grants to HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $364,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HESTER J HODGDON LIBRARIES FOR 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.

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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 2020–2024), 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