Central Dakota Library Network (Cdln)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814819252
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bismarck, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7013551482
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,837
- Expenses
- $122,327
- Assets
- $120,374
- Liabilities
- $579
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINE KUJAWA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHRISTINE KUJAWA (PRESIDENT)
- CHARLENE WEIS (VICE PRESIDE)
- BETH BRUESTLE (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
The mission of cdln is to provide a shared integrated library system (ils) and collections through intralibrary loan. Cdln works to operate, fund, and administer the ils and its data so the collective strengths support and advance the research and learing of its members' constituents.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of cdln is to provide a shared integrated library system (ils)and collections through intralibrary loan. Cdln works to operate, fund, and administer the ils and its data so the collective strengths support and advance the research and learning of its members' constituents
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.