Massachusetts · Nonprofit
The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc
The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,157 to it, the largest being MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $24k
What The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc does
Mission
To help the Soughborough Library to develop, maintain, enhance and increase use of its facilities, resources, and services for the public; provide cultural and educational opportunities to the community; and encourage literacy, love of reading, and ongoing self-education in the community, both young and old.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Children and Y/A programs - to encourage literacy through educational, entertaining, and reading programs.
$0 spentMuseum passes - passes to area museums providing free or reduced rates for our patrons.
$0 spentCirculating Material - Circulating DVD's to patrons.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $17k to $30k (+80%).
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.
94% of The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $31.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Friends of the Southborough Library Inc’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 Friends of the Southborough Library Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
40% 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 Friends of the Southborough Library Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Friends of the Southborough Library Inc has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Friends of the Southborough Library 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc: 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 Friends of the Southborough Library Inc?
- The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,157 to it, the largest being MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,157 in grants to The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc?
- MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Friends of the Southborough Library Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 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