Oregon · Nonprofit
WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION
WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,780 to it, the largest being The O L Moore Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $218k
What West Linn Library Foundation does
Mission
To promote appreciation and to generate support for the west linn public library and to raise funds for the library's collections, programs, and facilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided funds and leadership to reading and outreach educational programs, thus allowing many participants the encouragement to participate in the love of reading.assisted in the creation of a satellite book drop program that allows easier return of library materials, thus enhancing the library circulation of materials within the community.the foundation is a proud participant in the dolly parton imagination library. This program is funded through foundation donations and fundraising.
$43,616 spent$21,698 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,616.
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 $108k to $158k (+46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Erin Patterson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $36 → $6k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 WEST LINN 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“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
WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280 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
WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WEST LINN 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION: 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 WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,780 to it, the largest being The O L Moore Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,780 in grants to WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- The O L Moore Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST LINN LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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