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LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$200
Net assets
$187k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Lakewood Public Library Foundation does

Programs

  1. Sponsorship of community events in the city of lakewood, ohio

  2. Raise funds for improvements to main and madison branch locations of the lakewood public library.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9k) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($212k)2018 Revenue 52 ($5k) Expenses 18 ($505) Net assets 102 ($216k)2019 Revenue 80 ($7k) Expenses 22 ($622) Net assets 105 ($222k)2020 Revenue 45 ($4k) Expenses 23 ($644) Net assets 107 ($226k)2021 Revenue 436 ($39k) Expenses 27 ($760) Net assets 125 ($264k)2022 Revenue 68 ($6k) Expenses 3613 ($101k) Net assets 80 ($170k)2023 Revenue 83 ($7k) Expenses 23 ($634) Net assets 83 ($177k)2024 Revenue 82 ($7k) Expenses 26 ($716) Net assets 87 ($183k)2025 Revenue 63 ($6k) Expenses 28 ($773) Net assets 89 ($187k)
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Revenue (63)Expenses (28)Net assets (89)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 2021 to 2022, from $264k to $170k (−36%).

$212k
$216k
$223k
$226k
$264k
$170k
$177k
$183k
$187k
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,568 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$4k
’18
$7k
’19
$3k
’20
$39k
’21
−$95k
’22
$7k
’23
$7k
’24
$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of LAKEWOOD PUBLIC 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.

Where its funders are

LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.

NC

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

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Ohio out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,984 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin86% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,984 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKEWOOD PUBLIC 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200 in grants to LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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.

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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 1 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