Rhode Island · Nonprofit
JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION
JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,140 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trustshared funderslocal
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio match
- Pennsylvania Humanities Councilportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY 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
JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trustshared funderslocalCA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiple Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knights of Columbus Council 1883portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio 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 JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY 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 JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,140 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $300,140 in grants to JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMESTOWN PHILOMENIAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 6funders 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