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FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY

EIN 31-0896371 COLUMBUS, OH

Revenue 2024
$353,297
Expenses 2024
$237,220

Program services were 64.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Classification
3000
Street
96 S GRANT 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

BUILDING AWARENESS AND RESOURCES TO CHAMPION THE MISSION OF COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY

Activities or mission (Part I)

BUILDING AWARENESS AND RESOURCES TO CHAMPION THE VISION OF COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY

  • PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR A VARIETY OF THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY'S EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS, SUCH AS THE SUMMER READING CHALLENGE, TEEN READ WEEK, AND HOMEWORK HELP CENTERS.

    Expenses $153,492 · Grants $92,700

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.

  • MARGO ARNOLD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LOIS BECKMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH MILKS BETHEL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MEREDITH HARPER BONHAM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID BOYLAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JESSE CANTRELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH CARROLL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • THOMAS DAVIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGELA RAMOS FIELDS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MEREDITH HART

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TRACY HEDRICK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPH KUSTA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JANELLE LOPEZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PENNY MARTIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAUREN MCBRIDE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARLY MILLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAELA NEAL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RYAN PRICE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIA RAMEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURA ROSENTHAL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN ROTHSCHILD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA THOMAS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LYN TOLAN-BARBIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH TREBBIEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GWEN ZACZEPINSKI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $353,297
    Expenses
    $237,220
    Contributions
    $608,786
    Grants paid
    $92,700
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $195,308
    Expenses
    $475,726
    Contributions
    $615,021
    Grants paid
    $31,412
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $428,049
    Expenses
    $144,119
    Contributions
    $950,585
    Grants paid
    $6,000

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
    $95,348
    Expenses
    $112,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,116,314

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $160,416
    Expenses
    $159,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,220,992

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $507,066
    Expenses
    $242,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,280,093

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,566
    Expenses
    $239,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $985,835

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,617
    Expenses
    $244,827
    Assets (EOY)
    $936,117

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $221,360
    Expenses
    $293,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $846,517

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.