South Carolina · Nonprofit
TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,502 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($33,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $544k
What Timrod Literary and Library Association does
Mission
Community literacy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Circulated 4,211 books. Purchased new publications. 5,355 persons visited the library. General upkeep and conservation of the historic building and collection of books, artifacts, archives. Income directed for this purpose includes Donations and Memberships. Expenses include book purchases, routine building maintenance, utilities, and wages.
$47,427 spent$100,018 earned by the program57% of program spendingPreservation and maintenance expenses related to the ongoing preservation of the historic building; continued addressing issues identified by licensed preservationist as areas of immediate and long-term priority required in order to keep the property intact and protected.
$20,986 spent$16,925 earned by the program25% of program spendingContinued partnership with Dolly Parton Imagination Library (DPIL). Sign-ups are available for any child age 5 or younger living within the 29483 zipcode. Each registered child receives a free age appropriate high quality hardback book every month through age 5. Monthly costs are for postage only per child. DPIL bills Timrod according to number of children registered & receiving books.
$12,502 spent$8,428 earned by the program15% of program spendingReceived a grant from SC Humanities Foundation specifically for archive work at the Timrod. The grant was designed to pay a stipend to a professional archivist to properly preserve the earliest historic records from the Timrod and make them accessible to the public. Included funding for supplies, long-term storage and equipment to continue the work into the future. The project continued in the summer of 2025. Expenses are to date as of April 30, 2024.
$2,255 spent$3,800 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,170.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $484k to $544k (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $12k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’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
TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
74% 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 TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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
74% of TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: 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 TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION?
- TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,502 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($33,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,502 in grants to TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION?
- COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIMROD LITERARY AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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