Baker Free Library Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463157260
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
BOW, NH, USA
Phone
6032247113
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,016
Expenses
$21,033
Assets
$103,401
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • THOMAS IVES (PRESIDENT)
  • MATTHEW DODGE (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • THOMAS IVES (PRESIDENT)
  • MATTHEW DODGE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MICHAEL GRIFFIN (TREASURER)

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 baker free library foundation was created to facilitate long term growth and sustainability of the baker free library, the public library serving the town of bow, nh, and is located in bow, nh. The foundation's primary focus is creation of and building upon a long term endowment fund to sustain the library for years to come. The foundation also provides limited direct support to the library for specific projects as identified by the library trustees and director.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided support to the library; updated the children's section of the library in 2022. No program distributions made in 2022; funded children's section improvements in 2023. In 2024 provided music and entertainment for children as well as landscaping for library and funds toward new lions for library entrance. In 2025 updated the shevling in the staffing area and added a handicap door.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 78% 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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -23.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.92; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.