FRIENDS OF THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B71I

Classification

3000

Street

1000 4TH 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

  EIN 91-1140642

Mission and programs · 2024

• Distribution of free book bags to children receiving their first library cards, providing service items (headphones and USB drives) for distribution to Library patrons, and other Library projects and programs.

  Expenses $47,132

• The Friends of the Seattle Public Library operates the FriendShop, a gift store located in the Central Branch of The Seattle Public Library. The FriendShop acts as an ambassador for The Seattle Public Library, selling used books and gift items that celebrate reading and support the Library's mission of bringing people, information, and ideas together to enrich lives and build community. The FriendShop sells custom-designed items related to The Seattle Public Library, such as t-shirts and book bags. The FriendShop also sells memberships to The Friends of the Seattle Public Library and disseminates information about the Friends. An additional used book store, located in a community known to be a book desert, operates to further The Friends' mission by making books more accessible to this community.

  Expenses $173,111 · Revenue $154,267

• The Friends of the Seattle Public Library advocate on behalf of The Seattle Public Library. The Friends educate and inform its members, library patrons and the greater Seattle community about the Library, its services and the issues that it faces. The Friends support the Library's efforts to create lifelong readers through its Books For Teachers program. Through its surplus book program, the Friends gave books to community organizations in Seattle, including food banks, health clinics, homeless shelters, children's programs, education organizations, and many others.

  Expenses $14,541 · Revenue $4,800

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.

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

  $281,670

  Expenses

  $257,760

  Contributions

  $90,980

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $211,863

  Expenses

  $226,744

  Contributions

  $46,596

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $195,943

  Expenses

  $200,280

  Contributions

  $57,214

  Grants paid

  $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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $162,337

  Expenses

  $132,325

  Assets (EOY)

  $286,446

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $276,616

  Expenses

  $290,895

  Assets (EOY)

  $258,163

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $484,761

  Expenses

  $494,384

  Assets (EOY)

  $281,595

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $499,918

  Expenses

  $518,601

  Assets (EOY)

  $302,583

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $504,700

  Expenses

  $497,940

  Assets (EOY)

  $320,163

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

• SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2025 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $14,150

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $10,621

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $5,712

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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