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KING COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION

EIN 91-1505230 ISSAQUAH, WA

Revenue 2024
$2,161,587
Expenses 2024
$1,748,267

Program services were 88.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B71I
Classification
1000
Street
960 NEWPORT WAY NW

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

The King County Library System Foundation promotes literacy, learning, and libraries by providing support beyond public funding for initiatives and resources that enable the King County Library System to better serve the needs of our community.

  • KCLS Summer Reading was granted approximately $226,000. For low-income youth, simple access to books is the main barrier to reading engagement. This annual summer program provides books for all ages and focuses on habituating reading through challenges, incentives, and programs. Approximately $205,000 was granted to support KCLS Library innovation. These programs include Design thinking training, Community Creator, and National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) climate action plan. Collectively, these programs are improving the ability of KCLS to utilize data and technology to better serve its increasingly diverse communities. The other programs funded total approximately $76,000. Agility fund includes one million Reads, Amharic and Tigrignan Storytime, Library Services Platform Research, Regional Retreat, Books to support Author Event and Continuous Imaginative Play Renton Library.

    Expenses $507,640 · Grants $507,640

  • Approximately $411,000 was granted to support Community Services & Outreach. A majority of this amount supported Peers in Libraries, approximately $304,000. This program connects library patrons who have barriers to obtaining basic needs met, are experiencing housing instability or are unhoused, or are living with HIV/AIDS with services and resources to move them toward stability and improved health. KCLS Extending Services to People Experiencing Homelessness program, increases access for people who experience barriers to utilizing library buildings and programs due to housing instability. This program brings library resources and programs to community locations such as tent cities, shelters, day centers, treatment clinics, food banks, and subsidized housing. Services include book distribution, hotspot lending, activity kits, referrals to public benefits, and early literacy programs. Services to patrons experiencing food insecurity program provides books and programming to ten food bank locations across our service area. each location receives $1,000 stipend for programming that includes story times, food literacy, and community resource navigation. The Welcoming Centers programs goal is to facilitate connections and create communities of belonging among immigrants, refugees, and new arrivals. It functions as a point of connection, a suite of wraparound services, and a resolution that all libraries are places of belonging.

    Expenses $411,000 · Grants $411,000

  • Accessibility and Inclusion programs were granted approximately $370,000. This set of programs advance DEI in our communities in a number of ways. First, Writers of Color Author Series a series of online programs featuring high-profile BIPOC authors. A BIPOC community leader from King County moderates each event. Next, Connect: Wi-Fi Hotspots and Laptops program makes internet access available to people who would not otherwise be able to access it by distributing laptops and hotspots to partner agencies that serve people who are experiencing housing insecurity, as well as low-income seniors, immigrants, refugees, and students. Connecting Older Adults Online program takes a holistic approach providing learning opportunities that build the digital skills necessary in todays world, and art and humanities activities that are necessary for emotional well-being as people age. Older adults and caregivers are served through 40 online digital literacy classes, 100 online arts classes, and an online author series. The LGBTQIA+ Intergen Peer Programming a pilot program in which library staff will collaborate with community organizations to develop a framework for designing intergenerational LGBTQIA+ Programming and will host a series of 3 programs based on that framework. Lastly, Memory Labs Funded by a grant from The Mellon Foundation, KCLS will work with community partners during the Memory Lab project to gather, amplify, and preserve the stories of patrons who have been impacted by systemic inequities, and language and cultural barriers.

    Expenses $370,000 · Grants $370,000

  • Approximately $253,000 was granted to support Lifelong Literacy & Learning Programs. These programs include Raising a Reader, Supporting Grade Level Reading, and Study Zone. Raising a Reader is a nationally recognized caregiver engagement and book delivery program, built upon research showing that childrens literacy increases when families are engaged in a regular reading routine and have access to high-interest books that are developmentally appropriate with diverse representation. Through partnerships with other agencies, we connect directly with high-priority audiences. KCLS provides developmentally appropriate and diverse books for young children and their families, which are distributed through community partners each week. Supporting Grade Level Reading OTTER & Sasquatch Award. A program that helps reluctant and eager readers alike develop and strengthen their love of reading by offering fun books, engaging activities, and the voice to vote for their favorite books of the year. Book sets are distributed using an equity lens prioritizing schools that are under-resourced. StudyZone, a volunteer-led program providing learning support in a consistent and positive environment allowing students to receive tutoring in all subjects. It also gives English language learners the opportunity to practice English conversation and reading with their peers and get homework help from tutors who speak a wide range of languages.

    Expenses $253,000 · Grants $253,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Jim Wigfall

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Desiree Good

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Guddat

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandra Collier

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shobana Balakrishnan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cathleen Brueske

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Raymond Chan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pennie Clark Ianniciello

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Corey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Dillaway

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Frantz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patricia Friel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Haakenson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Greg Hendershott

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Theresa Huizi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jesse Janda

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Debbie Kuehner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erika Lindsay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anena Metoyer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Harriett Morton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Repass

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Piper Sangston

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Taylor

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anna Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lily LaMotte

    Director

    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
    $2,161,587
    Expenses
    $1,748,267
    Contributions
    $1,483,529
    Grants paid
    $1,541,640
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,877,541
    Expenses
    $2,027,680
    Contributions
    $2,425,003
    Grants paid
    $1,376,855
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,604,351
    Expenses
    $1,800,909
    Contributions
    $2,286,379
    Grants paid
    $1,387,591

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
    $2,076,061
    Expenses
    $1,225,336
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,486,562

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,758,374
    Expenses
    $913,554
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,882,186

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,711,918
    Expenses
    $2,053,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,094,386

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,026,591
    Expenses
    $4,354,267
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,913,249

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,288,690
    Expenses
    $1,434,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,857,420

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,383,937
    Expenses
    $1,557,181
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,389,952

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,317,066
    Expenses
    $1,374,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,383,888

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,011,193
    Expenses
    $1,038,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,543,666

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,087,713
    Expenses
    $908,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,794,731

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $669,845
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,361,693

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

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Grants received

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.