Florida · Nonprofit
Living Learning Libraries
Living Learning Libraries (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,519 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($36,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Living Learning Libraries does
Mission
Education support and resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Living Learning Libraries (LLL) provided approximately 1,150 children and teens with access to over 60,000 books selected to encourage youth reading. LLL also provided extensive support and consultation services to help families engage their particular learners in reading, and to meet those students particular academic and developmental needs.
$68,761 spent100% of program spendingLiving Learning Libraries assisted educators and parents in meeting specific academic needs through curation services: on a monthly basis, creating or curating customized book and resource plans. These include an International Baccalaureate school (approximately 200 books monthly), large learning cooperatives (1,000 books monthly for 300 - 375 children/teens), and two smaller learning cooperatives, who are using about 120 books per month.
Living Learning Libraries hosted a weekly Summer Story-time in May and June,open to children up to age 12. Also, approximately monthly during the schoolyear and on various holidays, LLL offered childrens story-time gatherings which included read alouds, historical and arts education, as well as, crafts and other activities. Attendance varied from 40 to 75 children per event. LLL cross promoted ecological and educational events with various organizations. Parental Education: Through the schoolyear, we host a once monthly parental enrichment event, as we lead parents through studying education itself, and reading the books of well known educators. LLL also offers constant parental support to the adults coming through our library as they seek input on ecouraging reading, overcoming reading reluctance, developing students personal interests and career goals, and dealing with learning difficulties or other reading issues presented.
In September of 2024 Living Learning Libraries opened a second branch located at 1484 SW 34th, Palm City, FL 34990.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,761.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $97k to $59k (−40%).
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.
100% of Living Learning Libraries’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $159 → $26k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Living Learning Libraries’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
Living Learning Libraries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Living Learning Libraries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 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
95% of Living Learning Libraries's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k 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
Living Learning Libraries has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Living Learning Libraries
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Living Learning Libraries: 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 Living Learning Libraries?
- Living Learning Libraries (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,519 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($36,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Living Learning Libraries have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $65,519 in grants to Living Learning Libraries, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living Learning Libraries?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living Learning Libraries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 4 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