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JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,601 to it, the largest being ELBA L AND GENE PORTTEUS BRANIGIN FOUNDATION ($108,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$259k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$349k
Net assets
$752k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Johnson County Public Library Foundation Inc does

Mission

The foundations mission is to develop and administer private funds to expand opportunities for the Johnson County Public Library to empower lifelong learning, make connection, and increase engagement in the Johnson County community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The JCPL Foundation provided supplemental funding to the Johnson County Public Library, which helped the library add new and enhance existing programs, materials, and services for all members of the community. In addition to individual, business and organization donations, funds derived from used book sales support the Library. In 2025, the library hosted 3,304 programs and outreach events, with 82,250 people attending. The library had 387,765 visits to its branches and 1,343,781 items circulated. In 2025, the foundation held the 2nd annual author speaking event featuring Mitch Albom.

    $106,466 spentof which $95,046 as grants$39,682 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $106,466.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($296k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($292k)2019 Revenue 30 ($88k) Expenses 178 ($38k) Net assets 126 ($368k)2020 Revenue 24 ($72k) Expenses 308 ($65k) Net assets 139 ($406k)2021 Revenue 89 ($264k) Expenses 344 ($73k) Net assets 220 ($640k)2022 Revenue 66 ($195k) Expenses 1597 ($338k) Net assets 153 ($447k)2023 Revenue 95 ($280k) Expenses 595 ($126k) Net assets 200 ($583k)2024 Revenue 72 ($213k) Expenses 1003 ($212k) Net assets 208 ($606k)2025 Revenue 87 ($259k) Expenses 688 ($146k) Net assets 258 ($752k)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (688)Net assets (258)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $411k to $645k (+57%).

$292k
$374k
$411k
$645k
$453k
$591k
$618k
$760k
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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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$275k
’17
$50k
’19
$7k
’20
$191k
’21
−$143k
’22
$154k
’23
$1k
’24
$113k
’25
13
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.

Chief executive

Lauren Zuber

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201720212022202320242025
Listed111215131512
Joined··+3+2+3+3
No longer listed··0416
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $86k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 JOHNSON COUNTY 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

JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.

31%
largest funder
76%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 65% · 2023 99% — 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

50% of JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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

84% of JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

WI
NY
IN
CT
NC

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

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’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

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In Indiana

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 10%Fundraising 17%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $348,601 to it, the largest being ELBA L AND GENE PORTTEUS BRANIGIN FOUNDATION ($108,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $348,601 in grants to JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
ELBA L AND GENE PORTTEUS BRANIGIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $108,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing