Cranberry Public Library Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251305780
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cranberry Township, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7247769100
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $793,229
- Expenses
- $817,709
- Assets
- $1,701,072
- Liabilities
- $104,357
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS PARKINSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBYN GROSS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LESLIE PALLOTTA (LIBRARY DIRECTOR): $86,783 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See form 990, part i, line 1
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of the cranberry public library is to strengthen our community by serving as an integral hub for information, inspiration, and enrichment.to achieve this, cranberry library spent $66,904 on new materials for the library's collection. This included print, audio visual and electronic items for patron use. The physical collection size of the library is approximately 73,534 items. In 2025, 263,053 items circulated from the library's collection. Additionally, the library offered 720 programs to all segments of the population, birth through senior citizens. 13,192 individuals attend one or more of the programs which ranged from traditional storytimes, to hands on steam learning in our forge makerspace, to the always popular summer reading program. The library spent $12,364 on programming expenses in 2025. This amount includes programming costs for both the library and the forge makerspace program offerings.the library had 15 pcs and ipads available for patron use during 2025. In 2025 the public access computers and ipads were logged into 9,420 times. To maintain and keep technology up to date, the library spent $25,373.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 82% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $70.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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; 64th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $656K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $87K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding 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
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.