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DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 38-1387108 DETROIT, MI

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Revenue 2025
$551,252
Expenses 2025
$698,398

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B71I
Classification
3000
Street
269 WALKER 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

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list 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

TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE THE CITY OF DETROIT'S CULTURAL GROWTH, ALL FORMS OF LITERACY, AN INTEREST IN BOOKS, AND OTHER FORMS OF HUMAN RECORD AND TO ESTABLISH COOPERATIVE RELATIONSHIPS AND PROGRAMS WITH THE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY AND OTHER CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND GROUPS IN SUPPORT OF SUCH CHARITABLE, LITERARY, AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ENHANCE ALL FORMS OF LITERACY AND AN INTEREST IN BOOKS.

  • PROGRAMMING/EVENTS - INCLUDES YOUTH AND FAMILY LITERACY AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN EFFORTS AND UNIVERSAL ACCESS THROUGH STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVELOPMENT.

    Expenses $38,590

  • LITERACY INITIATIVES - LITERACY IS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD AROUND US AND WHILE THE LANDSCAPE MAY CHANGE AS TIME MOVES ON, KNOWLEDGE WILL ALWAYS BE A FORMIDABLE OPPONENT AGAINST POVERTY AND DIVISION. THE ORGANIZATION WILL CONTINUE TO SEEK OUT, SUPPORT AND PROVIDE RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE IN OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES THAT STAND IN THE WAY OF THEIR GREATNESS.

    Expenses $286,701 · Grants $28,170

  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT/ LIBRARY SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY - INCLUDES TRADITIONAL LIBRARY INITIATIVES:EARLY LITERACY (K-3); BASIC LITERACY; DIGITAL/TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY; PRIORITIZES PROGRAMS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON LITERACY AND MENTORSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN OF COLOR; ENCOURAGES AND SUPPORTS COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS TO DELIVER NEW, INNOVATIVE AND EQUITY DRIVEN PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DETROIT COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $237,124 · Grants $16,781

  • SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND PRESERVATION SUPPORT OF INITIATIVES THAT UTILIZE THE BURTON HISTORICAL COLLECTION TO SERVE AS RESOURCES FOR THE INTERACTION OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS, SOCIAL/CIVIL EQUITY PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT ENHANCE THE DETROIT COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $38,754 · Grants $14,180

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.

  • David Costa

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Gardynik

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Krieman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Crystal Powell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sean Ryan Everett

    CEO/BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $117,572
    From this org
    $109,053
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,519
    Hours/week
    40

  • Carol Huckleby

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Spica

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeanne Wardford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sharri Watkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Kalkstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $551,252
    Expenses
    $698,398
    Contributions
    $243,879
    Grants paid
    $59,131
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $319,478
    Expenses
    $567,999
    Contributions
    $60,047
    Grants paid
    $35,749
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $221,854
    Expenses
    $528,534
    Contributions
    $79,535
    Grants paid
    $52,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $172,370
    Expenses
    $487,690
    Contributions
    $59,551
    Grants paid
    $26,472

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
    $310,193
    Expenses
    $510,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,265,630

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $772,383
    Expenses
    $402,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,862,508

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $235,281
    Expenses
    $278,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,850,553

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $458,669
    Expenses
    $332,737
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,015,210

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,491
    Expenses
    $300,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,915,177

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $421,321
    Expenses
    $327,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,670,787

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,509
    Expenses
    $320,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,491,522

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $642,390
    Expenses
    $480,803
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,582,783

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,827
    Expenses
    $386,846
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,476,315

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $373,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,264,802

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

  • DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION

    $39,546

    2025 PURCHASE BOOKS, PROGRAM & BRANCH ASSISTANCE

  • DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION

    $27,500

    2023 PURCHASE BOOKS, DIGITAL LITERACY RESOURCES, PROGRAM ASSISTANCE

  • DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION

    $25,749

    2024 PURCHASE BOOKS, PROGRAM & BRANCH ASSISTANCE

  • ARTS & SCRAPS

    $20,000

    2023 SUMMER READING

  • MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC

    $10,000

    2024 IN SUPPORT OF ITS "BUY THE BOOK" PROGRAM AND THE LEGACY VINYL PROJECT

  • BULK SPACE

    $10,000

    2025 ARTIST MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM, MINI BLACK ZINE FAIR DETROIT, AND GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

  • COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES

    $10,000

    2022 MONTH OF DESIGN

  • DETROIT BODY GARAGE

    $9,585

    2025 COMMUNITY FITNESS & OUTDOOR STEWARDSHIP INITIATIVE (SUMMER FAMILY FITNESS SERIES) & FUNDS RAISED CODE GROW FITNESS SUMMER PROGRAM

  • DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION

    $9,472

    2022 PURCHASE RARE BOOKS; PROGRAM & BRANCH ASSISTANCE

  • ARTS & SCRAPS

    $7,000

    2022 KITS FOR KIDS; ART MOBILE SCHOLARSHIPS

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

Where these grants went next →

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.