Ohio · Nonprofit
KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,756 to it, the largest being DUBOIS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($19,756). 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.
- Carl M Jacobs Foundationshared funders
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio match
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio match
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.
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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of KENT FREE 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
KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Carl M Jacobs Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 7 organizations that share your funders
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee B Fisher Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seiple Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lester E Foster & Phyllis M Foster Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tiffany-Thompson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Humanities Councilportfolio 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 KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kent Free Library · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENT FREE 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.
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 KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,756 to it, the largest being DUBOIS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($19,756). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,756 in grants to KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- DUBOIS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,756 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENT FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2funders 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