Friends of the Durham Library Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581364880
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9199086004
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,560
- Expenses
- $80,958
- Assets
- $380,390
- Liabilities
- $6,230
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRUCE MITCHELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HALLE CARLSON (MEMBER)
- NANCY KRAMER (MEMBER)
- ALLIE COLE (MEMBER)
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
To foster the goals of the durham county library system. To raise and expend funds for materials, services, and programs not normally provided for in the library's operating budget. To work with the durham county library administration and staff, the board of trustees of the durham county library, and the durham library foundation for the betterment of the library, its patrons and the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support durham county library programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.8%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.9%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.7; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.8% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.