Friends of the Anaheim Public Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956111937
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Anaheim, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7145273254
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $188,536
- Expenses
- $322,956
- Assets
- $59,809
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Carlberg (President)
- Jason Rice (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bonne Stevens (Treasurer)
- Nancy Carlberg (President)
- Jason Rice (Vice President)
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
The mission of the Friends of the Anaheim Public Library is to establish closer relations between the Anaheim Public Library and the residents of the community, to promote the knowledge of the functions, resources, services, and needs of the library, to foster the development of cultural programs for the community centered in the library, and to enrich the library resources through funds derived from memberships, and to encourage gifts of collections of books and other publications, works of art, music, endowments, and bequests for public use and enjoyment.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of the Friends of the Anaheim Public Library is to establish closer relations between the Anaheim Public Library and the residents of the community, to promote the knowledge of the functions, resources, services, and needs of the library, to foster the development of cultural programs for the community centered in the library, to enrich the library resources through funds derived from memberships and to encourage gifts of collections of books and other publications, works of art, music, endowments, and bequests for public use and enjoyment. In 2025, We helped fund the Native American Arts Festival at Founders Park.We funded the "Lunch at the Library" program which provided free meals and books to community children.We hosted once a month special book sales and used the funds to fund library projects.We funded summer and winter reading programs.We donated to the Anaheim Public Library Foundation's annual luncheon.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -71.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 86.1% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $318K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.