Book Bus Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933325123
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Decatur, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7073303751
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,816
- Expenses
- $66,925
- Assets
- $80,438
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lia Carta (Director, President)
People named in this filing
- Lia Carta (Director, President)
- Cody Carta (Treasurer)
- Angela Deards (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
To promote literacy and educational access by providing books, reading programs, and mobile library services to children and families in the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Book Bus operates as a nonprofit mobile library serving children and families in a rural community by providing access to books, literacy resources, and educational programming. During 2025, the organization distributed books, hosted literacy-centered events, partnered with homeschool groups and community organizations, expanded library offerings, and promoted educational enrichment through mobile outreach services. The organization worked to foster a lifelong love of reading while increasing equitable access to literature and educational opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.7%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 1
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: -19.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 52; 52nd 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.7% of revenue deployed · 1.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $931 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.