Friends of Newark Pub Lirary Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843896250
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Newark, NY, USA
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,867
- Expenses
- $12,501
- Assets
- $35,902
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cheryl Chapman (President)
People named in this filing
- Cheryl Chapman (President)
- Tim Crowley (Treasurer)
- Ellie Bump (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support Newark Library
What it reported doing in 2025
Book Sales
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 7
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.8%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 7%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.8%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.87; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -52.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.8% of revenue deployed · 7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $877 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 7 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.