FRIENDS OF THE KNOX COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

EIN 23-7208195 KNOXVILLE, TN

Revenue 2025: $625,784
Expenses 2025: $329,176

Program services were 77.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 2000
Street: 500 W CHURCH AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Friends of the Knox County Public Library is a nonprofit organization that supports a vision of an excellent, free, public library available to everyone. We are a group of committed individuals who advocate and raise support for all 18 locations of the library system. Our members contribute funds through annual dues as well as through donations and donate time through volunteering. Thousands of people in our community benefit from the library programs we support throughout Knox County.

Friends of the Knox County Public Library supports the library system directly by awarding special grants each year for library programs, supplies, and equipment.

Expenses $255,280

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Crystal Sansom

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Courtney Winters

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Ashley Shaffer

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Kara Fitzpatrick

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Elizabeth Birdwell

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Ron Blackburn

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Deanna French

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Juliette Kesterson

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Jennifer Johnson

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Diane Peters

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Scott Muir

Past President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Paige Travis

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Susan Alexander

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Bonny Naugher

President & CEO

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Diane Tuccillo

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$625,784

Expenses

$329,176

Contributions

$214,102

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$243,465

Expenses

$194,508

Contributions

$179,701

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$234,126

Expenses

$189,537

Contributions

$171,976

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$208,650

Expenses

$179,136

Contributions

$170,068

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$625,784	$329,176	$214,102	$0
2024	$243,465	$194,508	$179,701	$0
2023	$234,126	$189,537	$171,976	$0
2022	$208,650	$179,136	$170,068	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$84,973

Expenses

$120,367

Assets (EOY)

$806,394
2020 · 990

Revenue

$215,348

Expenses

$175,877

Assets (EOY)

$806,307
2019 · 990

Revenue

$113,415

Expenses

$82,834

Assets (EOY)

$765,243
2018 · 990

Revenue

$152,877

Expenses

$111,463

Assets (EOY)

$685,754
2017 · 990

Revenue

$137,399

Expenses

$129,484

Assets (EOY)

$572,448
2017 · 990

Revenue

$141,973

Expenses

$129,484

Assets (EOY)

$577,022
2016 · 990

Revenue

$150,384

Expenses

$90,621

Assets (EOY)

$615,948
2015 · 990

Revenue

$125,294

Expenses

$113,721

Assets (EOY)

$592,282
2014 · 990-EZ

Revenue

$174,803

Expenses

$222,839

Assets (EOY)

$472,543
2013 · 990

Revenue

$130,429

Expenses

$133,296

Assets (EOY)

$527,972

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$84,973	$120,367	$806,394
2020	990	$215,348	$175,877	$806,307
2019	990	$113,415	$82,834	$765,243
2018	990	$152,877	$111,463	$685,754
2017	990	$137,399	$129,484	$572,448
2017	990	$141,973	$129,484	$577,022
2016	990	$150,384	$90,621	$615,948
2015	990	$125,294	$113,721	$592,282
2014	990-EZ	$174,803	$222,839	$472,543
2013	990	$130,429	$133,296	$527,972

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE INC

$83,500

2022
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE INC

$81,500

2023 SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION

$71,400

2022 Film preservation
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION

$54,400

2025 Film preservation
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE INC

$25,000

2024 SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE

$15,000

2024 FUNDS WOULD ALLOW ONE BOOK EVERY MONTH TO BE DELIVERED TO LOW INCOME FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FOR ONE YEAR.
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION

$11,910

2023 Film preservation
VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE

$10,000

2022 TO PURCHASE NEW BOOKS FOR AT RISK CHILDREN.
VARIETY OF EASTERN TENNESSEE

$10,000

2023 BOOKS FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.