Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251331716
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Braddock, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4123515356
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,221,973
- Expenses
- $1,306,638
- Assets
- $25,539,841
- Liabilities
- $1,774,131
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Victoria L Vargo (Executive Director)
- C Andrew McGhee (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Victoria L Vargo (Executive Director): $56,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Library services, tutoring, and educational programs
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational, reading and art programs for children and adults of the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 51.2%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: $77.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.55; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13% of revenue deployed · 51.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $669K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 13/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.