North Carolina · Nonprofit
WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,557 to it, the largest being William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation ($11,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $396k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Wayne County Public Library Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide the community with information, materials, and services that support learning and the workplace; promote an appreciation of our history and diverse cultures; and offer community members the opportunity to meet and interact with others in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Enrichment for library programming.
$173,983 spent94% of program spendingThe wayne county public library foundation, inc., along with the leadership of library director and assistant director led two significant projects in this fiscal year. Four years ago, efforts were begun to purchase a mobile library for wayne county. The mobile library was funded by the foundation as the lead funder along with funding from an lsta federal grant and some funds from the county of wayne. After several years of delays from the manufacture of the mobile library the delivery to the library was in the spring of 2024. The mobile library is a state-of-the-art mercedes sprinter van which includes a canopy for programming outside. Since the arrival of the van, there have been children's programming in the summer at regularly scheduled stops along with stops for adults. The mobile library serves to reach populations who cannot ordinarily visit the three county libraries. The foundation provided funds for materials for the mobile library. The foundation also supported the new program, the learning studio, for school aged children from grades 1-8 with dyslexia, adhd, and other learning differences. The program included materials in the libraries along with programming in the…
$10,229 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,212.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $2.5M (+24%).
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.
92% of WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Mary Bartlett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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
WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 41% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,557 to it, the largest being William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation ($11,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $41,557 in grants to WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 8 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