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CITY OF RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

EIN 54-1856348 RICHMOND, VA

Revenue 2025
$829,992
Expenses 2025
$410,681

Program services were 88.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B70
Classification
1000
Street
101 E FRANKLIN ST

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.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE CITY OF RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION DEVELOPS, ADMINISTERS, AND ALLOCATES FUNDS TO PROVIDE THE EXTRA MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE FOR THE CITY'S LIBRARY SYSTEM BY ENHANCING EXISTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE LIBRARY AND ITS PROGRAMS.

  • SUPPORT OF RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY WITH FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS, RESOURCES, AND EFFORTS THAT ENABLE RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND AND THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONS. THE WORK OF THE FOUNDATION IS GUIDED BY THE RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH IS DEVELOPED BY THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR WITH THE LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES. FOUNDATION SUPPORT IS DIRECTED TO THE FIVE STRATEGIC GOALS BELOW, WHICH DEMONSTRATE OUR DEDICATION TO PROVIDING CRITICAL RESOURCES TO A VIBRANT AND ENGAGED RICHMOND COMMUNITY. GOAL 1: ACCESSIBLE LIBRARIES: INCREASE ACCESS TO LIBRARY LOCATIONS AND ENSURE AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION AND RESOURCES TO RESIDENTS. GOAL 2: CHILDREN'S LITERACY: PROVIDE SERVICES AND PROGRAMS THAT BUILD AND CULTIVATE LITERACY AND A LOVE OF READING. GOAL 3: LIFELONG LEARNING: EXPAND OUR ROLE AS THE ONLY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION THAT SERVES THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY FROM BIRTH TO 100+. GOAL 4: ORGANIZATIONAL STRENGTH: ENSURE THE LIBRARY IS POSITIONED TO ANTICIPATE AND RESPOND TO THE CHANGING SERVICE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. GOAL 5: UNIQUELY RICHMOND: CIVICALLY ENGAGE AND CONNECT RESIDENTS TO INFORMATION AND RESOURCES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND DISCOVER RICHMOND'S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

    Expenses $364,422 · Grants $364,422

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • J Dontrese Brown

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Fran Bradford

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rich Peterson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Firestine

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Revere

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $82,276
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $82,276
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Peter Blake

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ryan Childress

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Allan-Charles Chipman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tori Filas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jennifer Goins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jamie Isley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Lauderdale

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nissa Lipowicz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dominique McKenzie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paige Newman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sue McFadden Patow

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ashley Payne

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Felix Schapiro

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janet Woody

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Deon Wright

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Peterson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ruth Deboer

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $829,992
    Expenses
    $410,681
    Contributions
    $710,642
    Grants paid
    $364,422
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $385,569
    Expenses
    $176,044
    Contributions
    $322,636
    Grants paid
    $151,930
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $221,918
    Expenses
    $148,919
    Contributions
    $192,795
    Grants paid
    $125,451

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
    $193,212
    Expenses
    $162,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,009,137
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $175,435
    Expenses
    $46,711
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,020,643
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $124,900
    Expenses
    $88,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $853,627
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $124,900
    Expenses
    $153,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $853,627
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $175,049
    Expenses
    $157,753
    Assets (EOY)
    $859,191
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $90,749
    Expenses
    $51,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $773,015
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $90,749
    Expenses
    $51,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $773,015
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $256,770
    Expenses
    $42,402
    Assets (EOY)
    $749,572
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $105,989
    Expenses
    $60,302
    Assets (EOY)
    $488,358
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $48,014
    Expenses
    $7,190
    Assets (EOY)
    $448,471

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

  • RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY CITY OF RICHMOND

    $364,422

    2025 SUPPORT

  • RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY CITY OF RICHMOND

    $151,930

    2023 SUPPORT

  • RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY CITY OF RICHMOND

    $125,451

    2022 SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY CITY OF RICHMOND

    SUPPORT · VA

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.