North Carolina · Nonprofit
HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,500 to it, the largest being Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $123k
- Net assets
- $49k
What High Point Public Library Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the library foundation is to enhance the life of the community by providing the resources essential for appropriate and proactive response to emerging community education needs and issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To establish and administer a library endowment to fund capital projects and the expansion of existing library programs and services, as well as fund new services and programs that address critical community library needs.
$962 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $962.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $398k to $47k (−88%).
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.
61% of HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Wil Elder
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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
HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: 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 HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,500 to it, the largest being Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $122,500 in grants to HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH POINT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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