Friends of the Bellaire Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341979385
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bellaire, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7136628160
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,683
- Expenses
- $14,512
- Assets
- $59,606
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lucinda Kontos (President)
- Eve Reed (Vice President)
- Andrea Ehlers (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Lucinda Kontos (President)
- Eve Reed (Vice President)
- Carol Thomas (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
The purpose of the Friends of the Bellaire Library is to actively support and encourage the continuous improvements and enhancement of the Bellaire City Library.
What it reported doing in 2025
The sale of used books, donations, fundraisers, and dues fund the summer reading program and other supplies/activities as well as the general library activities not covered by the city budget.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.7%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 10
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.6%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.11; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.7% of revenue deployed · 10.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.