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FRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY

EIN 83-4409594 HIGHWOOD, IL

Revenue 2024
$296,740
Expenses 2024
$109,144

Program services were 94.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C11
Classification
1230
Street
50 HIGHWOOD 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 · 2024

Mission

The Organizations mission is to support the Highwood Public Library, focus attention on Library services, facilities and needs, promote the welfare and growth of the Library and receive and encourage gifts and bequests to the Library.

  • The Friends of the Highwood Public Library supports quality library services through advocacy, fundraising, and volunteering in ways that promote the policies and long-range plan of the library. We are a volunteer organization interested in supporting, improving, and expanding literacy-focused library services and resources at the Highwood Public Library.

    Expenses $103,000 · Grants $103,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gayle Meyers

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristi Winchester

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martin Rosenthal

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Singer

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maureen Chertow Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifur Condon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vicki Newman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Rood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $296,740
    Expenses
    $109,144
    Contributions
    $289,008
    Grants paid
    $103,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $474,169
    Expenses
    $491,835
    Contributions
    $474,169
    Grants paid
    $483,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,032,170
    Expenses
    $191,381
    Contributions
    $1,032,170
    Grants paid
    $185,000

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
    $1,059,390
    Expenses
    $1,220,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $255,757

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,509
    Expenses
    $108,403
    Assets (EOY)
    $419,083

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $123,920
    Expenses
    $22,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,231

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 May 2018 to 30 April 2019
Principal officer
Carmen Patlan
Mailing address
102 Highwood AveHighwood IL 60040
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • Highwood Public Library

    $483,000

    2023 LIBRARY SUPPORT

  • Highwood Public Library

    $185,000

    2022 LIBRARY SUPPORT

  • Highwood Public Library

    $103,000

    2024 LIBRARY SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.