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OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,745 to it, the largest being THE WAYNE & PAULINE THRIFT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Oconee County Friends of the Library does
Mission
Support Oconee County Library System
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Reading Programs- Help fund Summer and Winter Reading Program for children, youth and adults. Over 2000 people attended Summer Reading activities this past year. This is an annual program.
$5,600 spent9% of program spendingSemi-annual Cash Gift - Twice a year, FOL gives the library system half the funds raised through book sales. Book sales include weekly basement sales, booth sales, lobby sales and more. The funds benefit all library patrons.
$32,025 spent51% of program spendingWishlists - There are four library branches in the Oconee County Public Library. Early each year, FOL gives each branch $1500 to spend on items that they otherwise couldn't afford to purchase due to budgets. The librarians love it and make purchases that benefit the staff and all patrons.
$6,000 spent10% of program spendingScholarship $4000, Little,Free Libraries $970, Community Resources $500, Book Club 161
$5,631 spent9% of program spendingFurnishings for community conference room, etc.
$13,061 spent21% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,317.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $33k to $47k (+42%).
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 OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE 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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $117.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE 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
OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 85% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $729 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY has grown faster 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
Organizations like OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE 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 South Carolina
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY?
- OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,745 to it, the largest being THE WAYNE & PAULINE THRIFT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,745 in grants to OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY?
- THE WAYNE & PAULINE THRIFT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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