North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,250 to it, the largest being BERTSCH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation does
Mission
The Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation was established in 1997 to provide financial support to enhance the capabilities, resources, and services of the chapel hill public library. The foundation does this by fundraising and advocacy that benefits the chapel hill community and promotes greater awareness of the library's valuable resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation supports the chapel hill public library by fundraising and advocacy that benefits the chapel hill community and promotes greater awareness of the library's valuable resources. The foundation manages the love trust and provides annual distributions to the library. For fye 6/30/25, the foundation provided $40,000 in contribution payments from the love trust to the library. In addition, this year the foundation also made a $6,000 grant for the tech room mural.
$46,000 spentof which $46,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $46,000.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+38%).
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.
25% of THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $11k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 THE CHAPEL HILL 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
THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 55% · 2023 53% — 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
80% of THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE CHAPEL HILL 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Town of Chapel Hill Public Library · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHAPEL HILL 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 THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,250 to it, the largest being BERTSCH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $56,250 in grants to THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- BERTSCH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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