Friends of the Dana Point Library

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 953468584
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2013–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Dana Point, CA, USA
Phone: 9494893956
Rating: 86
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue: $15,162
Expenses: $19,678
Assets: $122,581

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

LISA BUCHNER (President & CEO)
KAT QUINN (Vice President)

People named in this filing

FLORENCE TASLITZ (Secretary)
BLANCA GOLDMAN (Director)
LISA BUCHNER (President & CEO)

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

Raising revenue to purchase books and publications for dana point community library and to fund children's and adult programs through membership dues, donations and the sale of used books. To provide funds for acquistion and improvement of the library facilities and equipment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Providing monthly donations to the dana point community library for books, to fund the children's and adult programs and improvement to the facility and equipment.

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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 100
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 40
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -29.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.23; rating input score 87; 87th 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: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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 17/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.