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IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC

IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,525 to it, the largest being CAESARS FOUNDATION OF FLOYD COUNTY INC ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$453k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$267k
Net assets
$244k
7/20 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Imagination Library of Louisville Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to provide free books to louisville children in an effort to foster a love of reading and prepare them for kindergarten. We believe that by improving early education in our community, we can contribute to the lifelong success of jefferson county kids.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The imagination library of louisville, inc. Supports the dolly parton imagination library by raising funds to purchase books and to distribute them to school children in metro louisville, kentucky. The project began with the leadership of the junior league of louisville and has distributed over 450,000 books. The books have been distributed to children in eight economically disadvantaged zip codes. The project began in 2017. The imagination library of louisville, inc. Was incorporated in late 2019 to serve as an independent non-profit carrying out this mission. In 2023 broadened scope to serve all children within jefferson county, kentucky. It will raise funds from donors and foundations. This project furthers the organization's exempt purpose of supporting educational attainment and is the organization's only project. Thus, 100 of our time is allocated to it.

    $371,036 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $371,036.

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 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($119k)2021 Revenue 25 ($38k) Expenses 139 ($46k) Net assets 93 ($111k)2022 Revenue 80 ($121k) Expenses 169 ($56k) Net assets 148 ($175k)2023 Revenue 79 ($120k) Expenses 551 ($182k) Net assets 96 ($114k)2024 Revenue 268 ($406k) Expenses 914 ($302k) Net assets 184 ($218k)2025 Revenue 299 ($453k) Expenses 1292 ($427k) Net assets 206 ($244k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (299)Expenses (1292)Net assets (206)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 2023 to 2024, from $114k to $218k (+92%).

$119k
$111k
$175k
$114k
$218k
$244k
202020212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 63% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$119k
’20
−$8k
’21
$65k
’22
−$62k
’23
$104k
’24
$26k
’25
6.8
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.

20242025
Listed1614
Joined·+2
No longer listed·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $14k.

3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE 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

IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

86% 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 IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC.

26%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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

43% of IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 35% 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 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

64% of IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

WI
NY
IN
KY
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve6.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 12%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
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 IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC?
IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $266,525 to it, the largest being CAESARS FOUNDATION OF FLOYD COUNTY INC ($70,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $266,525 in grants to IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC?
CAESARS FOUNDATION OF FLOYD COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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