Texas · Nonprofit
SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY
SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,494 to it, the largest being Tocker Foundation ($20,494). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $224k
What Sammy Brown Library does
Mission
Provide library services to the public
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Library services provided to the residents of panola county
$152,130 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $152,130.
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 2018 to 2019, from $242k to $226k (−7%).
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: 2017 62% · 2018 70% · 2019 68% · 2020 71% · 2021 74% · 2022 78% · 2023 83% · 2024 81% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
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
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of SAMMY BROWN 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
SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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: 2018 100% · 2019 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 SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAMMY BROWN 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SAMMY BROWN 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 SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY?
- SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,494 to it, the largest being Tocker Foundation ($20,494). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,494 in grants to SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY?
- Tocker Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,494 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMMY BROWN LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2 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