Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL AND SMALL LIBRARIES ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Holbrook Public Library Foundation Inc does
Mission
The hplf is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the programs, services, and facilities of the holbrook public library. Our mission is to enrich the lives of community members by providing resources that promote literacy, education, and cultural enrichment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Technology access expansion: the organization contracted vodavi technologies, llc to upgrade the holbrook public library's wi-fi infrastructure. This ensured reliable, high-speed internet access through the entire library facility, significantly improving digital access for patrons relying on library-based internet services.
$12,005 spent37% of program spendingCommunity engagement and fundraising: the organization hosted its annual mini-gold fundraiser to support library programming and operations. Mobile mini-golf, llc was engaged to install and manage a temporary mini-golf course inside the holbrook public library. This event fostered community engagement, promoted literacy and and recreational programming, and raised funds for the holbrook public library's interior painting project.
$695 spent$5,893 earned by the program2% of program spendingFacility improvements: to improve the aesthetic and functional environment of the holbrook public library, the organization contracted o'han painting to repaint the entire interior of the facility. This upgrade created a more welcoming and inspiring environment for library visitors and community groups who utilize the space for reading, meetings, and educational programs.
$14,770 spent46% of program spendingReading nook: to promote early literacy and create a child-friendly space within the holbrook public library, the organization purchased a custom reading nook from universal exports, llc. The reading nook offers a quiet, engaging, and accessible environment designed to encourage patrons to read, learn, and explore books.
$4,000 spent12% of program spendingCommunity recognition and outdoor space enhancement: the organization purchased a custom dedication bench from treetop products, llc. The bench was installed on holbrook public library grounds.
$671 spent2% of program spendingSponsorship: the organization provided sponsorship for the holbrook avon youth soccer program.
$200 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,341.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $49k to $22k (−56%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 80% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 HOLBROOK 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
HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
73% 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 HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 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
HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500 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.
Against its field
HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 45% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$40k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOLBROOK 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL AND SMALL LIBRARIES ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,500 in grants to HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- THE ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL AND SMALL LIBRARIES is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLBROOK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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