Everylibrary Institute Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814351204
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2022, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Berwyn, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3125740316
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,386,783
- Expenses
- $1,089,601
- Assets
- $382,259
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Chrastka (Chief Executive Officer Chairman President)
Highest reported compensation
- John Chrastka (Chief Executive Officer Chairman President): $55,000 total reported compensation
- Brian Hart (Board of Directors Treasurer): $12,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
EveryLibrary Institutes purpose is to operate exclusively for educational and charitable purposes including primarily research writing publishing and related activities concerning public academic and school libraries in the United States.
What it reported doing in 2025
Continued to manage the FundLibraries digital fundraising platform for the benefit of libraries and library organizations to collect small dollar donations with related marketing and outreach support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - Program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 52
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.4%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 39.9%; rating input score 40
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 81.2%; rating input score 81; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.4%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.4% of revenue deployed · 39.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 16 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $354K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 41 current checks pass · 6 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticOrgs column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.