Franklin County Library System
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231457996
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Chambersburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7177090282
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,236,031
- Expenses
- $3,373,030
- Assets
- $1,472,750
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW VICKERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SUE MCLAUGHLIN (PRESIDENT)
- GEORGINA CRANSTON (VICE-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREW VICKERS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $92,884 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the franklin county library system is to enrich the lives of the residents of the region through access to materials, information, and services imparting the knowledge, experience, and wisdom of others, through qualified staff members, programs, and partnerships with other local agencies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Acquisition and circulation of books and non-book informational materials
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 9th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $128K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.