Idaho · Nonprofit
The Community Library Association Inc
The Community Library Association Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,336,466 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,041,045). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $27M
What The Community Library Association Inc does
Mission
The Community Library brings information, ideas, and individuals together to enhance the cultural life of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General circulation: The Community Library Association provides access to books and learning materials for anyone, for free. The circulating collection includes more than 80,000 physical items and also a wide range of digital resources, including online databases, platforms, and streaming services. In this fiscal year, the door count 121,681 visitors. More than 138,000 items were circulated. The digital branch of the Library was accessed more than 350,000 times.
$2,333,812 spent74% of program spendingThe Community Library provides free educational programs to both adults and children. The total number of programs presented is an average of 14 per week, across all departments. This is more than 700 programs annually. These programs include lectures, author readings, school programs and field trips, story times, technology tutorials, a summer reading program, and community book clubs, as well as a 3-day reading summit for early literacy teachers. Many of these educational programs also are available virtually. More than 17,000 individuals (total program count) participated in free educational programming in this fiscal year. During this fiscal year, the Library also launched a new year-round bookmobile. (Continued on Schedule O)In addition, the Library presented the fourth annual Sun Valley Early Literacy Summit, a three-day professional development opportunity for K-3 teachers from around southern Idaho. Fifty teachers participated, and another 50+ alumni from previous years participated in the alumni day of continued education.
$452,276 spentof which $84,300 as grants$15,829 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe Community Library serves as a regional history hub for Central Idaho. The Library's Jeanne Rodger Lane Center for Regional History houses a collection of more than 10,000 photographs, 500 oral histories, 2,000 books, as well as maps, documents, three-dimensional objects, and ephemera. It includes a special Ernest Hemingway collection pertaining to the author's extensive time spent in the Sun Valley area. It also is responsible for the stewardship of the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House and Preserve. The Center for Regional History is used by professional and amateur scholars, students, and visitors to study the history of Ketchum and Sun Valley, and Central Idaho generally. (Continued on Schedule O)In July of 2023, we opened the Wood River Museum of History and Culture as the exhibit space for the Center for Regional History. It includes five exhibit galleries. In this fiscal year, more than 22,000 (door count) visitors came to the Museum.
$375,906 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,161,994.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $17M to $23M (+30%).
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 7% · 2021 8% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of The Community Library Association Inc’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Jenny Emery Davidson
Executive Director
Board chair
Mike Wade
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $700k.
19 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 Community Library Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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 Community Library Association Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 The Community Library Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 53% · 2019 57% · 2020 73% · 2021 31% · 2022 44% · 2023 25% — 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
48% of The Community Library Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
62% of The Community Library Association Inc'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 $3.5M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside Idaho, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
The Community Library Association Inc's revenue fell 17% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Community Library Association Inc
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc?
- The Community Library Association Inc (Idaho) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,336,466 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,041,045). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Community Library Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $9,336,466 in grants to The Community Library Association Inc, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Community Library Association Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,041,045 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Community Library Association Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 53 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