Friends of the Auberry Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202834496
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Auberry, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5598555690
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,459
- Expenses
- $59,605
- Assets
- $1,073,883
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Cheryl Thompson (Manager): $10,000 total reported compensation
- Jeanette Welton (Office Manager): $1,470 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 Friends of the Auberry Library's mission is to support the Auberry Library as it strives to encourage literacy and lifelong learning and to provide a vibrant cultural gathering place: to enhance the Library's resources and services: and to increase the community's access to information and knowledge.
What it reported doing in 2025
FOAL Speaker Series: the program director schedules talks by knowledgeable people in various fields throughout the San Joaquin Valley to inform the local community about their topic. Presenters often bring power point presentations for use in FOAL's projection system at the library, as well as, books they have authored, artifacts, and examples of realia from travels. Attendance is free and presenters are paid a stipend.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.2%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 24
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -9.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 18.02; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.2% of revenue deployed · 24.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.