Alaska · Nonprofit
North Star Imagination Library
North Star Imagination Library (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,760 to it, the largest being BEST BEGINNINGS ($183,897). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $40k
What North Star Imagination Library does
Mission
Provide books monthly to children under the age of 5 in the fairbanks north star borough at no cost to families and provide books to local business waiting rooms and donate books.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide books monthly to children under the age of 5 in the fairbanks north star borough at no cost to families and provide books to local business waiting rooms and donate books.
$76,183 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,183.
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 2019 to 2020, from $58k to $28k (−52%).
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 Star Imagination Library’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. 6 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $20k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Star Imagination Library’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 Star Imagination Library leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Star Imagination Library.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of North Star Imagination Library's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Star Imagination Library runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,807 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,807 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like North Star Imagination Library
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 Alaska
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for North Star Imagination Library: 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 North Star Imagination Library?
- North Star Imagination Library (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,760 to it, the largest being BEST BEGINNINGS ($183,897). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does North Star Imagination Library have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $190,760 in grants to North Star Imagination Library, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of North Star Imagination Library?
- BEST BEGINNINGS is the largest funder on record, with $183,897 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Star Imagination Library find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing