Bosler Memorial Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231381007
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Carlisle, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172434642
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,681,843
- Expenses
- $2,046,025
- Assets
- $8,350,578
- Liabilities
- $10,592
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LU CONSER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFFREY SWOPE (EXECUTIVE DI): $104,303 total reported compensation
- DIANA ROBERTSON (BUSINESS MAN): $66,543 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Form 990 - mission statement the bosler memorial library is a leading intellectual, educational, recreational, and cultural asset in cumberland county. Founded in 1900, this public library serves the borough of carlisle, seven townships in cumberland county, the carlisle barracks (home of the u.s. Army war college), the cumberland county prison, and serves as the cumberland county law library. Its mission is to empower lifelong learning by meeting the community's needs through robust, high-quality, and diverse collections, programs, and services. In keeping with the library's mission, the bosler memorial library provides opportunities for all people without restriction. The library celebrates the diversity of the members of the community it serves and strives to serve all memebers of the community equally. With more than 187,628 visits in 2025, the bosler memorial library is one of the busiest libraries in cumberland county. It is a member of the cumberland county library system, which
What it reported doing in 2025
The library makes it a priority to ensure that all children enter kindergarten with the language, cognitive, and early reading skills needed for success in school. The library provides collections, programs, and services that are designed to meet the educational, developmental and socio-emotional needs of children at all ages and uses both state and national standards, benchmarks, and practices to conform the design and implementation of these collections, programs, and services. The youth services department provides quality learning and engagement experiences for families of children of all ages. Collections, programs, and services are provided that support infants, toddlers, preschoolers, early elementary age, tweens, and teens. The youth services department offers preschool/early elementary age children access to specialized computers that engage them in a cross-curricular set of software packages that are fun and educational. These programs are benchmarked to the national learning standards to ensure high quality learning experience while encouraging technology skill development. In 2025, these awe early learning computer stations were used by children more than 10,000 times. The youth services staff provide programs that engage young minds in a wide range of subject areas and a broad range of topics that include: socialization, fine/gross motor skills development, early reading skill development, math, science, art, music, ecology, dramatic play, cultural awareness, civic engagement, history, and more. During the summer months, the library provides a summer learning challenge that engages children/students of all ages in activities and experiences that maintain and improve their reading and learning level through the summer months when children can experience learning losses deemed the "summer slide." in 2025, more than 17,000 children, teens, parents, and caregivers attended more than 800 programs offered by the bosler memorial library.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.7%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.