Friends of the Temecula Libraries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953374803
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Temecula, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9516938900
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,518
- Expenses
- $107,829
- Assets
- $434,996
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHYLLIS RUSE (PRESIDENT)
- KATHI BOLLINGER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PHYLLIS RUSE (PRESIDENT)
- KATHI BOLLINGER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DARLENE LYNN (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the friends of the temecula library is to maintain a corporation composed of citizens who believe that a library is not a luxury, but a necessity of life; to focus public attention on the library; to stimulate the use of the library's resouces and services; to receive and encourage gifts, endowments and bequests to the library; and to staff and maintain bookstores, the net income of which will be utilized for the benefit of the library.
What it reported doing in 2024
The grace mellman community library and ronald h. Roberts temecula public library have a variety of programs for children, teens and adults throughout the year. The largest and most popular of these programs is the 'reading by design summer reading program'. The California summer reading program is a project of the California library association, supported by the us institute of museum and library services under the provisions of the library services and technology act. Friends of the temecula library is a sponsor of this and all of the library programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.03; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.7% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.