California · Nonprofit
LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,135,200 to it, the largest being THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION ($501,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Long Beach Public Library Foundation does
Mission
The Long Beach Public Library Foundation provides support to enhance the long beach public library and encourages literacy and education for all members of the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Literacy support at all levels and tools for success: the foundations fundraising efforts, grants, and endowed funds provide support to enhance the long beach public libraries and encourage literacy and education for all members of the community. These enhancements include: family learning center program: the family learning center program is the library and foundations flagship partnership. Learning guides assist students with homework and school projects in language arts, reading, math, science, and technology. They provide guidance, oversight, and free access to computers, printers, and academic resources recommended by the school district that support curriculum. Learning guides also work with the students parents, whenever available, to engage them in the learning process. This is one of the citys best resources in helping to bridge the communitys vast digital divide and provides free after-school homework and academic assistance to students, many of whom come from title I schools. The family learning center also serves as an entry point to connect patrons with additional services. The makerspace studio: the studio is a digital creativity lab at the billie jean king main…
$1,095,470 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,095,470.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $14M (+21%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $93k → $417k.
8 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
34% 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 LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 42% · 2019 74% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
82% of LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LONG BEACH 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LONG BEACH 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 LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,135,200 to it, the largest being THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION ($501,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,135,200 in grants to LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- THE RUDOLPH J & DAPHNE A MUNZER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $501,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 43 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