Alaska Library Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237129276
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fairbanks, AK, USA
Phone
9072244008
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$78,583
Expenses
$88,068
Assets
$286,202
Liabilities
$2,340

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RACHEL NASH (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • THERESA QUINER (PRESIDENT)
  • REBECCA MOORMAN (PRESIDENT-ELECT)

People named in this filing

  • JESSICA LEREMIA (CONFERENCE COORDINATOR)
  • RACHEL NASH (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • CATHERINE MELVILLE (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Alaska library association is organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes, including promoting library services and development within the state, raising the standards of library services, & fostering professional and fraternal relations among librarians and others interested in library services.

What it reported doing in 2025

Alaska state library assistance: assist the libraries throughout Alaska in supporting the library community by acting as the conduit to disperse grant funds received from the state of Alaska to individual libraries in Alaska, including providing scholorships to students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 64.5%; rating input score 64

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.25; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 64.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.