Colorado · Nonprofit
HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION
HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,737 to it, the largest being The Weld Trust ($68,137). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Weld County Incshared funderslocal
- Tocker Foundationportfolio match
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
36% of HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $17k → $37k.
4 of 12 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 HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & 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
HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 100% · 2019 54% · 2020 51% · 2021 53% · 2022 78% · 2023 55% — 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
33% of HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
85% of HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Weld County Incshared funderslocalCO · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Foundation of Dickinson County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dane G Hansen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prentice Farrar Brown and Alline Ford Brownportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leroy and Claris Strand Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beach-Edwards Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arkansas Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- High Plains Library District · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION?
- HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,737 to it, the largest being The Weld Trust ($68,137). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $214,737 in grants to HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION?
- The Weld Trust is the largest funder on record, with $68,137 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH PLAINS LIBRARY DISTRICT FRIENDS & FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing