Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation
Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation (Wisconsin) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,221 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($58,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation does
Mission
To make the sun prairie public library the best it can be.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation (spplf) is a non-profit, 501c3 organization whose sole purpose is to support the sun prairie public library (sppl) to be the best library it can be. In 2023 the spplf focused fundraising on a capital campaign for the expansion of the library. The foundation supported the library by holding both mail campaigns and in-person events supplemented with social media. Two major in-person fundraising events were held in spring and fall. 100% of annual spplf investment earnings may be distributed to the sppl. 2022 investment earnings enabled the spplf to offer sppl $35,102 in support. Sppl elected not to use those funds for programs and library improvements and to leave 100% into the invested funds.
$88,675 spentof which $36,950 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $88,675.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $5.2M (+75%).
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: 2020 78% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $250 → $55k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation’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
Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
98% 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 Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 55% · 2023 31% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $72k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation: 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 Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation?
- Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation (Wisconsin) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,221 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($58,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $297,221 in grants to Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 17 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