Funding search · EIN 455397422 · Sparta, WI

Friends of the Sparta Free Library

Name: Friends of the Sparta Free Library grants, 2022–2025
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

4
grants reported: $1.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $232,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

4 grants matching “sparta” · $1.8M

$364,000
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2025
Library expansion
$1.2M
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2024
Library expansion
$100,000
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2023
Library expansion
$100,000
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2022
Library expansion

Grant history

All 4 reported grants, largest first.

$1.2M
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2024
Library expansion
$364,000
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2025
Library expansion
$100,000
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2023
Library expansion
$100,000
Sparta Free Library · Sparta, WI · 2022
Library expansion

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.