Washington · Nonprofit
LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK
LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $149,848 to it, the largest being SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ($149,848). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $407k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $148k
What Library Support Network does
Mission
Supporting people who raise money for public libraries through shared knowledge, peer connection, and collective impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community and learning: the Library Support Network connects and equips the people responsible for public library fundraising through peer community, convenings, professional education, and leadership learning. Activities include the lsn online community, monthly convenings, webinars, leadership roundtables, and the international public library fundraising conference (iplfc), which brings together public library fundraising professionals, library leaders, board members, and support organization staff from across north america. More than 1,000 people have engaged through the various learning opportunities including 250 conference attendees.
$177,672 spent70% of program spendingAdvisory support: lsn provides advisory and consulting services to help public libraries and their fundraising partners strengthen strategy, board leadership, organizational alignment, and fundraising readiness. Services include board retreat facilitation, custom strategic planning, and tailored training for organizations at key moments of growth or transition. Lessons from this work inform lsn's broader field-building efforts, helping translate individual organizational experience into practical knowledge for the sector.
$52,209 spent$90,200 earned by the program21% of program spendingField-building and collective efforts: lsn leads shared campaigns and field-building initiatives that help public libraries strengthen fundraising capacity and expand awareness of their value. Library giving day provides free campaign planning tools, branded templates, and sample messaging that help libraries of all sizes participate in a shared day of giving and build digital fundraising practices. Lsn also engages philanthropic funders and sector partners to increase understanding of public library funding needs and opportunities for investment.
$22,850 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $252,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $64k to $149k (+133%).
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.
77% of LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK’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
100% of LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK's grant income comes from Washington funders.
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.
Against its field
LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK: 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 LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK?
- LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $149,848 to it, the largest being SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ($149,848). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $149,848 in grants to LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK.
- Who is the largest funder of LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK?
- SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $149,848 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIBRARY SUPPORT NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2024–2025), 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