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KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,740 to it, the largest being MARY FROST ASHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($320,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$719k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$521k
Net assets
$809k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Kenosha Public Library Foundation Inc does

Mission

Solicit & grant funds for kenosha public library.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grants to kenosha public library for operational support.

    $700,458 spentof which $700,458 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $700,458.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($320k)2019 Revenue 81 ($36k) Expenses 33 ($10k) Net assets 119 ($379k)2020 Revenue 37 ($16k) Expenses 26 ($8k) Net assets 133 ($424k)2021 Revenue 39 ($17k) Expenses 241 ($74k) Net assets 125 ($401k)2022 Revenue 60 ($26k) Expenses 24 ($7k) Net assets 116 ($370k)2023 Revenue 849 ($371k) Expenses 405 ($124k) Net assets 204 ($653k)2024 Revenue 1641 ($719k) Expenses 2343 ($716k) Net assets 253 ($809k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1641)Expenses (2343)Net assets (253)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 2022 to 2023, from $370k to $653k (+76%).

$320k
$379k
$424k
$401k
$370k
$653k
$863k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’18
$25k
’19
$8k
’20
−$56k
’21
$19k
’22
$248k
’23
$2k
’24
8.8
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.

20232024
Listed1015
Joined·+8
No longer listed·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $11k → $7k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 KENOSHA 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

KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

61%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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.

Where its funders are

KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
NY

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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

KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)59% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Kenosha Public Library · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENOSHA 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 KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,740 to it, the largest being MARY FROST ASHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($320,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $520,740 in grants to KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
MARY FROST ASHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENOSHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 9 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