Montana · Nonprofit
LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,418 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($38,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $243k
What Lincoln County Public Library Foundation does
Mission
The support of the lincoln county montana libraries including raising, receiving, administering and disbursing funds, grants, bequests and gifts for the benefit of the libraries its' collections and facilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Summer reading - foundation funds were used to support this program by providing educational activities, reading incentives, program materials, and enrichment opportunities for children and families in the community. These expenditures promoted literacy, encouraged lifelong reading habits, and increased access to educational programming during the summer months.
$3,812 spent10% of program spendingMother goose on the loose - funds were used to support professional development by enabling library staff to attend mgol training conducted by the program's creator. This training enhanced staff skills in delivering early literacy programming for infants, toddlers, and caregivers, strengthening the library's ability to promote language development, reading readiness, and family engagement in the community.
$3,000 spent8% of program spendingFamily strong - as a former community partner organization, the expense represents the remaining funds that were previously designated for its programs and services. As the library and family strong no longer share these funds jointly, the balance was remitted to the organization to support its ongoing charitable and community-focused activities.
$2,418 spent6% of program spendingOther expenses used in the support of the lincoln county montana libraries to raise, receive, administer and disburse funds, grants, bequests & gifts for the benefit of the libraries, its' collections and facilities.
$30,457 spent77% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,687.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $179k to $243k (+36%).
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.
91% of LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $750 → $25k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LINCOLN COUNTY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 62% — 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
98% of LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.
Against its field
LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$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 LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN COUNTY 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 LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,418 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($38,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $68,418 in grants to LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA is the largest funder on record, with $38,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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