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WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION

WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,305 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($32,206). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$28k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$49k
Net assets
$382k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Waukee Public Library Friends Foundation does

Mission

Fund purchases of supplies, equipment, technology and books to be used by the Waukee public library.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided grants for the purchase of library books and supplies.

    $0 spentof which $12,984 as grants

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($124k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($350k)2021 Revenue 22 ($27k) Expenses 177 ($14k) Net assets 117 ($410k)2022 Revenue 23 ($28k) Expenses 176 ($14k) Net assets 109 ($382k)
202020212022
Revenue (23)Expenses (176)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

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 $350k to $410k (+17%).

$350k
$410k
$382k
202020212022
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.

2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$116k
’20
$13k
’21
$15k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $122.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS 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

WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION.

65%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

66% of WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.

IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,195 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−52% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,195 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION?
WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,305 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($32,206). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $49,305 in grants to WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $32,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 5 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