Douglas County Libraries Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841207775
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Castle Rock, CO, USA
- Phone
- (303) 764-3311
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $766,499
- Expenses
- $215,435
- Assets
- $2,983,808
- Liabilities
- $216,874
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BOB PASICZNYUK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LIBRARY)
- AMBER DEBERRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FOUNDATION)
Highest reported compensation
- BOB PASICZNYUK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LIBRARY): $283,970 total reported compensation
- AMBER DEBERRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FOUNDATION): $237,964 total reported compensation
- CASIE COOK (TREASURER): $209,486 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Douglas County Libraries Foundation supports the Douglas County Libraries system through fundraising and community engagement.
What it reported doing in 2025
The douglas county libraries foundation delivers funding and resources to help sustain douglas county libraries and positively impact our community members so they can grow and thrive. During 2025 the foundation funded the library district's programs for adult services, education, local history, volunteer services, and online high school. Additional funds were provided for branch operations, capital expenditures and library camp scholarships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - 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 few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.3%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 71.9%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.85; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 50.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 24.3% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $146K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $284K · 17 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 24/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.