Idaho · Nonprofit
NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC
NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC (Idaho) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,089 to it, the largest being THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA INC ($27,293). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $14k
What North American Friends of Chawton House Library Inc does
Mission
To promote and build support for Chawton House in the US and Canada to its ongoing work of fostering greater awareness, understanding and research into early women's writing. Donations support the organizations unique collection of manuscripts and books, sustain the house and its gardens and support the varied programs of exhibition, lectures, conferences and tours all to ensure that the lives of these women writers lives on.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Help to safeguard a priceless Austen family property and the great legacy of early women writers housed at the "Great House."
$3,185 spentof which $37,000 as grants83% of program spendingRecovered books lost from the Austen family library at Godmersham.
$499 spentof which $12,043 as grants13% of program spendingAcquisitions of books for the Chawton House Library
$153 spentof which $2,697 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,837.
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 2017 to 2018, from $34k to $17k (−50%).
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 NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $1k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC’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
NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Idaho, across 2 states in all.
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
NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC's revenue fell 59% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC
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In Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC?
- NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC (Idaho) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,089 to it, the largest being THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA INC ($27,293). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $57,089 in grants to NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC?
- THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHAWTON HOUSE LIBRARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 5 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