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FRIENDS OF THE DES PLAINES PUBLIC LIBRARY

EIN 36-3135903 DES PLAINES, IL

Largest nonprofits in Illinois

Revenue 2024
$199,348
Expenses 2024
$198,260

Program services were 99.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
1501 ELLINWOOD 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

Primary exempt purpose

The mission of the Friend of the Des Plaines Public Library is to stimulate public interest in the library, promote literacy, life-long learning and the love of reading for all residents of Des Plaines, IL. It is also to support the activities of the DPPL designed to develop new library services of facilities, to provide ancillary financial support for project deemed desirable by DPPL board and FDPPL not normally available thru library. conventional budget provisions. Programs benefit city of DP community. Programs are for young children to seniors and include reading, lectures, music and arts.

  • Restricted donation to building and equipment for Creative Space/Media lab space located in Des Plaines Public Library

    Expenses $100,430

  • Education programs 2024 summer and winter reading programs all ages, family reading programs. Sunday movies, teen band concerts, summer/fall programs including music.

    Expenses $96,821

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.

  • Karen Wierer

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16

  • Debra Sus

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16

  • Arlene Arend

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16

  • John Leach

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16

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
    $199,348
    Expenses
    $198,260
    Contributions
    $198,523
    Grants paid
    $197,252
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $120,519
    Expenses
    $0
    Contributions
    $119,704
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $126,769
    Expenses
    $114,312
    Contributions
    $125,639
    Grants paid
    $110,650

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $19,709
    Expenses
    $5,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,536

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $8,589
    Expenses
    $4,514
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,661

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

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

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.