Maine · Nonprofit
PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY
PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,943 to it, the largest being Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $343k
What Phillips Public Library does
Mission
Public library - to promote reading
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Book circulation: adults 5,419, young adult and children 3,040 618 registered patrons, internet usage with 5 public computers and 24 hour wifi
$77,047 spent100% of program spendingSummer reading program "fairy tales around the world": areas of the world "visited" in the 5 consecutive weeks of presentations were north america, asia, africa, russia, and latin america.
Program on writing your family history by dick matthews. Session included how to begin, improving writing skills, and viewing a selection of books on writing a memoir.
Initiated a library seed loan project. Patrons were able to sign out and use a variety of vegetable and flower seeds. In return, the library asks the borrower to save seeds and share for future plantins. Four regional speakers on gardening, soil care, seed preservation and harvesting were brought in each month for four months. 145 attending.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,047.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $370k to $355k (−4%).
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 PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $19k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 PHILLIPS PUBLIC 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
PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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
79% of PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PHILLIPS PUBLIC 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 Maine
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHILLIPS PUBLIC 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY (Maine) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,943 to it, the largest being Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $58,943 in grants to PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY?
- Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILLIPS PUBLIC LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 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