Ashville Free Library

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
160849636
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Ashville, NY, USA
Phone
7167639906
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,714
Expenses
$67,102
Assets
$374,624
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Donald Butler (President)
  • Michelle Arnone (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Donald Butler (President)
  • Adrienne Foos (Trustee)
  • Peter Radka (Financial Officer)

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

Public Library providing services to the Towns of North Harmony and Harmony with approximately 550 registered patrons. Staffed with one part time library director, one part time librarian and 12 volunteers. Library is open approximately 52 hours per week.

What it reported doing in 2025

Public Library providing services to the Towns of North Harmony and Harmony with approximately 550 registered patrons. Staffed with one part time Library director and 12 volunteers. Library is open approximately 52 hours per week.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 79
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.6%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 38.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.58; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.