Friends of the Kalamazoo Public Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237155729
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kalamazoo, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2695537821
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,951
- Expenses
- $93,869
- Assets
- $50,436
- Liabilities
- $154
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donna Clinard (President)
- Pam Shebest (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Donna Clinard (President)
- Pam Shebest (Vice President)
- Paul Pearson (Treasurer)
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 financially help support the Kalamazoo Public Library, it's programs, and staff.
What it reported doing in 2025
Proceeds from the bookstore are used to help support Kalamazoo Public Library employees and selected library programs. The estimate of the number of persons benefited is 300.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 56.7%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.1% of revenue deployed · 56.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.