Friends of the Metuchen Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222707936
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Metuchen, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7326328526
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,430
- Expenses
- $46,174
- Assets
- $397,711
- Liabilities
- $70,968
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda George (President)
- Maryellen Brown (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Linda George (President)
- Maryellen Brown (Vice President)
- Kimberly Denny-Ryder (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 Friends of the Metuchen Library ("FOTML") is a non-profit corporation that supports programming and acquisitions at the Metuchen Library, and works to interest the public in library holdings and programming. We are a 501(c)3 corporation, able to raise money and make purchases. We work closely with the Metuchen Public Library to help them offer enhanced programming and materials to patrons. Our objective is to foster interest in the Metuchen Public Library by sponsoring programs and cultural activities, by providing financial support beyond the set budget established by the Metuchen Borough Council, and by assisting in other ways decided on by the FOTML or at the request of the Board of Trustees of the Library.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 69% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.6%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 76.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.61; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 110.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.