Balcones Energy Library Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
742350263
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
2108226900
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$154,725
Expenses
$180,438
Assets
$315,457
Liabilities
$934

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SCOTT BROWN (Vice President)
  • Mark Thompson (President)

People named in this filing

  • NICHOLAS WEATHERSTON (Secretary)
  • SCOTT BROWN (Vice President)
  • BARRY BROONER (Treasury)

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 organization's purpose is to maintain current tobin lease maps and sub-surface geological data for use in the exploration and development of south Texas oil and gas reserves. Access to the library's reference materials and sub-surface well data is granted to the library's membership, local university geology students, and day rate users.

What it reported doing in 2025

The corporation is an educational library dedicated to improving the quality of geological subsurface studies through the gathering and dissemination of valuable inforamtion necessary to benefit and advance the education and study of subsurface geology and the domestic petroleum industry.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -16.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.