El Rito Public Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850459285
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- El Rito, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5755814608
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $219,445
- Expenses
- $108,960
- Assets
- $357,027
- Liabilities
- $4,174
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAN GILLETTE (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- JAN GILLETTE (Executive Director): $13,573 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are an accredited library dedicated to promoting lifelong learning, preserving northern New Mexico's cultural heritage, and providing a welcoming space where people of all ages can share ideas and access a wide range of educational resources.
What it reported doing in 2024
Children and youth programs. This inlcuded: (a) summer reading progrsm; (b) after school program learning activities for elementary students after school; (c)toddler literacy, introducing toddlers to reading at an early age; (d) STEM-to-read; (e) Farm Trip; (f)Wildlife Center raptors education; (g) field trip to artist Nicholas Herreras studio; (h) adobe brickmaking class; (i) Explora Science Center traveling exhibit. 280 children, toddlers, tweens, and teens, as well as parents and guardians, attended these programs. We also participated in the Abiquiu Back to School Block Party, providing school supplies for the new school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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 few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.7%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 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: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 50.3%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.28; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.7% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.