Friends of the Sunnyvale Public Library Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 946184243
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4087307501
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,377
- Expenses
- $44,456
- Assets
- $1,272,680
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathy Boelter (President)
- Hannalore Dietrich (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kathy Boelter (President)
- Mark Isaak (Secretary)
- Michele Wendy Stanley (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To fund programs and acquisitions for the Sunnyvale Public Library
What it reported doing in 2024
Funding of various Sunnyvale Public Library programs and acquisitions. These include the Summer Reading programs for children and adults various childrens and adults programs and special events
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.8%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 28.63; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 40 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.