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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being JOHN J & JUDY A ARLEDGE CHARITABLE ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$281k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500
Net assets
$2.8M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Public Library Foundation does

Mission

To support public library services for the city of seguin and its environs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization has established an endowment fund so there will be a sustaining source of funds to support public library services. Current year expenses were paid to provide reference materials, subscriptions, library equipment, and computer resources and software for such.

    $99,524 spentof which $99,524 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. N/a

  3. N/a

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,524.

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 ($601k) Expenses 100 ($21k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 39 ($234k) Expenses 135 ($29k) Net assets 114 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 51 ($308k) Expenses 215 ($45k) Net assets 132 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 10 ($59k) Expenses 256 ($54k) Net assets 132 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 51 ($305k) Expenses 279 ($59k) Net assets 149 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 38 ($228k) Expenses 316 ($67k) Net assets 160 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 29 ($177k) Expenses 406 ($86k) Net assets 166 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 43 ($258k) Expenses 484 ($102k) Net assets 177 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 47 ($281k) Expenses 491 ($104k) Net assets 189 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (47)Expenses (491)Net assets (189)

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 $1.7M to $1.9M (+16%).

$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$2.8M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$580k
’17
$205k
’18
$262k
’19
$5k
’20
$247k
’21
$161k
’22
$91k
’23
$156k
’24
$178k
’25
40
months of
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.

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Listed191919181515141412
Joined·+2+0+4+3+0+0+3+4
No longer listed·20560136
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE 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.

Where its funders are

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like THE 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being JOHN J & JUDY A ARLEDGE CHARITABLE ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
JOHN J & JUDY A ARLEDGE CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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