Indiana · Nonprofit
KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC
KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,037,189 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($808,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Inc does
Mission
A public benefit nonprofit organization championing the literary, artistic and cultural contributions of the late writer, artist and Indianapolis native Kurt Vonnegut
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
KVML is a public benefit nonprofit organization championing the literary, artistic and cultural contributions of the late writer Kurt Vonnegut. We conduct author talks, poetry readings, youth writing center, reading room and a lending library. The library serves as cultural and educational resource facility, museum and art gallery providing a venue for free speech dialogue and shop to highlight the life of Kurt Vonnegut through research, entertainment, community outreach and discussion. During 2024, KVML served 150,000 people within our venue and through partner venues. Youth writing project has expanded to all four high schools of Indianapolis area and is serving 54% of Indianapolis Public High School population.
$862,264 spent$199,813 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $862,264.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $234k to $1.8M (+667%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 7% · 2019 1% · 2020 37% · 2021 64% · 2022 17% · 2023 12% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Julia Whitehead
Executive Director
Board chair
Lewis Black
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $37k → $491k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
42% 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 KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 56% · 2019 52% · 2020 33% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 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
35% of KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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
91% of KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $940k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $272k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$174k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$64k
- National Endowment for the Arts$33k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY 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 KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC?
- KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,037,189 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($808,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,037,189 in grants to KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $808,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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