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WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC

WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,939 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($200,973). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$312k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$230k
Net assets
$393k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 97%
01What it does

What Whitefish Library Association Inc does

Mission

Enrich whitefish by supporting the whitefish library.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Enrich the quality of life in the whitefish area by fostering the growth and success of the whitefish community library.

    $19,912 spentof which $18,145 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,912.

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 ($23k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2018 Revenue 95 ($22k) Expenses 75 ($25k) Net assets 88 ($21k)2019 Revenue 175 ($41k) Expenses 91 ($30k) Net assets 132 ($32k)2020 Revenue 194 ($45k) Expenses 107 ($36k) Net assets 172 ($41k)2021 Revenue 285 ($66k) Expenses 76 ($25k) Net assets 342 ($83k)2022 Revenue 140 ($33k) Expenses 113 ($37k) Net assets 325 ($79k)2023 Revenue 91 ($21k) Expenses 57 ($19k) Net assets 337 ($81k)2024 Revenue 188 ($44k) Expenses 74 ($25k) Net assets 429 ($104k)2025 Revenue 1340 ($312k) Expenses 68 ($22k) Net assets 1629 ($393k)
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Revenue (1340)Expenses (68)Net assets (1629)

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 $104k to $393k (+280%).

$24k
$21k
$32k
$41k
$83k
$79k
$81k
$104k
$393k
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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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
−$3k
’18
$11k
’19
$10k
’20
$41k
’21
−$5k
’22
$2k
’23
$19k
’24
$290k
’25
180
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $18k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 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

WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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

98% 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 WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC.

87%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 93% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% — 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

95% of WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC'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 Montana funders.

MT

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC?
WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,939 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($200,973). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $229,939 in grants to WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC?
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 6 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