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Tavern Books

Tavern Books (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,018 to it, the largest being ANCHOR POINT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$3k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$0
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Tavern Books does

Program

Living Library-See Schedule O

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2018 Revenue 134 ($131k) Expenses 137 ($128k) Net assets 114 ($25k)2019 Revenue 58 ($56k) Expenses 69 ($64k) Net assets 80 ($18k)2020 Revenue 3 ($3k) Expenses 22 ($21k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820192020
Revenue (3)Expenses (22)Net assets (0)

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 $18k to $0 (−100%).

$23k
$25k
$18k
$0
2017201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$3k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$18k
’20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $5.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Tavern Books’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

Tavern Books leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 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

Tavern Books draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states in all.

OR
CA
CO
NM

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Tavern Books receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Tavern Books

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tavern Books: 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 Tavern Books?
Tavern Books (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,018 to it, the largest being ANCHOR POINT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tavern Books have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $33,018 in grants to Tavern Books, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tavern Books?
ANCHOR POINT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tavern Books find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 5 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