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Sign In — Free (10 views/day)Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, founded in 1961, is a community nonprofit in the Education sector that reported $4.9M in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue surged 45% from the prior year, signaling strong growth momentum. The organization ran a surplus of $1.3M, a strong 27% operating margin.
Friends supports the free public libraries of San Francisco. We provide funding and conduct advocacy and outreach to ensure that all people have equal access to the information, resources and support that our libraries provide. Friends believes that libraries are anchors for thriving neighborhoods, and that an excellent library system is critical to the health of our city.
Library Support Program:Friends has an annual direct support program that funds various library programs, resources, and equipment. As a community foundation, Friends awards support to the SFPL for...
Library Support Program:Friends has an annual direct support program that funds various library programs, resources, and equipment. As a community foundation, Friends awards support to the SFPL for innovative, free programs and services that are open to everyone across San Francisco in the areas of: children and teens, neighborhood branches, arts and culture, exhibitions, careers and jobs support, ESL, new immigrant support, technology and media learning, remote outreach (bookmobiles), and special collections and infrastructure support for affinity centers throughout the Main Library. Examples of popular programs that rely almost exclusively on Friends' support are One City One Book, the Summer Stride Reading and STEM Program, Tricycle Music Festival, and the publication of At the Library, a free newsletter of activities at the Main Library and the 27 branches. Friends' funds also support professional development for library staff, including paying for specialized training and conferences and grants to Librarians to pilot new innovative services that if successful, are often expanded system wide. And finally, Friends support includes additional funds for the library to promote free programs among identified groups of high-need residents, including contracting digital marketing expertise. Through Friends, community members express their support and aspirations for the SFPL as: - Persuasive Advocates committed to a strong and responsive library with reliable public funding. - Engaged Champions advancing the SFPL's mission for community literacy and expansive free resources and opportunities for everyone.- Generous investors bridging the funding gap between what the city provides and the cost of additional programs, resources, and services that San Franciscans want and need.
Community Book Program: Through ongoing efforts to support the library, Friends connects readers with inexpensive and free books. Each year, through its Community Book Program ("CBP"), Friends takes...
Community Book Program: Through ongoing efforts to support the library, Friends connects readers with inexpensive and free books. Each year, through its Community Book Program ("CBP"), Friends takes in over one million donated books and media, which it in turn resells to the public through two bookstores, online sales, and a number of specialty book sales (including some of the largest book sales on the West Coast). The SFPL also selectively acquires rare books from Friends that enhance SFPL's collections. Many books are also donated to schools and other non-profit organizations through Friends' CBP. Friends re-engineered what has been known as Books Operations into the Book Program, embracing its activities more accurately and fueling its growth as a valuable community asset that supports SFPL's mission for literacy and literary engagement. The Book Programs' four fundamental goals balance literacy and a national model for environmental responsibility. These goals are to: - Increase access to low-cost books and media through multiple venues of convenience and affordability. - Redirect free books from the traditional market to underserved and low-income children and families.- Promote literary engagement through free literary activities. - Keep more than one million books and media out of landfill and recycling plants each year.
Advocacy Program:Friends continues the tradition of active and vocal support to ensure excellence in library services for all users. Friends' long and successful track record includes its critical...
Advocacy Program:Friends continues the tradition of active and vocal support to ensure excellence in library services for all users. Friends' long and successful track record includes its critical role in passing five ballot measures over the last 30 years. Through its advocacy efforts, Friends helped pass a $106 million bond measure to build and refurbish 24 neighborhood branch libraries city-wide (2000, Prop A), championing the Library Preservation Fund, ensuring increased library hours, services and budget (1994, Prop E); spearheading the legislative campaign to build a $109.5 million new Main Library (1988, Prop A) and securing over $9.7 million in state funding. In 2007, Friends helped pass a measure (Prop D) that will bring in over $1.2 billion to the library by renewing the Library Preservation Fund and most recently in 2022, passed the third version of the Library Preservation Fund (Prop F) securing twenty-five years of public funding. We continue to work with elected officials, community groups, and the library administration to ensure a premier library system for San Francisco.
Financial Health Score (300–850) · Liquidity · Solvency · Sustainability · Efficiency
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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)
Sign In — Free (10 views/day)| 2024 | 2023 | Change | |
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| Revenue | $4,861,318 | $3,344,781 | +0.5% |
| Expenses | $3,542,110 | $3,616,539 | 0.0% |
| Net Income | $1,319,208 | $-271,758 | -5.9% |
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| Rebecca Charnas-Grant | Chair | 1.00 |
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| Nelly Sapinski | Vice Chair | 1.00 |
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| Miriam Wrobel | Treasurer | 1.00 |
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| Sarah Ives | Secretary | 1.00 |
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| Chrysty Esperanza | Board Member | 1.00 |
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| Ben Mangan | Board Member | 1.00 |
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| Cynthia So Schroeder | Board Member | 1.00 |
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| Willie Swinerton | Board Member | 1.00 |
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| Emily Ford Dirks | Executive Director (start 5/24) | 35.00 |
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$132,196 | $879 | $133,075 |
| Bob Daffeh | Director of Finance & Admin. | 35.00 |
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$149,541 | $37,150 | $186,691 |
| Michael Mercanti | Communication Officer | 35.00 |
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$100,917 | $9,442 | $110,359 |
| Shaojun Wu | Finance Manager | 35.00 |
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$106,910 | $29,664 | $136,574 |
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Net Income |
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| 2025 | $4,861,318 | $3,542,110 | $12,961,042 | $1,319,208 |
| 2024 | $3,344,781 | $3,616,539 | $10,334,828 | $-271,758 |
| 2023 | $5,378,258 | $3,964,708 | $10,108,766 | $1,413,550 |
| 2022 | $3,006,314 | $3,091,175 | $7,992,031 | $-84,861 |
| 2021 | $3,121,864 | $3,050,841 | $10,027,176 | $71,023 |
| 2020 | $3,213,162 | $3,636,643 | $7,398,385 | $-423,481 |
| 2019 | $3,756,168 | $4,027,200 | $7,104,701 | $-271,032 |
| 2018 | $2,976,213 | $3,450,561 | $7,301,042 | $-474,348 |
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