Friends of the University City Public Library

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237120754
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
University City, MO, USA
Phone
3149740291
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Libraries

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$32,448
Expenses
$46,243
Assets
$33,761
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jo Seltzer (President)
  • Linda Wallace Jones (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Jo Seltzer (President)
  • Linda Wallace Jones (Vice-President)
  • Nan Rochberg (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

Providing financial support to the University City Public Library

What it reported doing in 2025

Grant to University City Public Librry to fund programs and purchases not in its regular budget such as but not limited to summer reading programs and extra book purchases. Grant to the University City Public Library to help maintain the gardens on its grounds.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 6
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 6.5%; rating input score 6
  • Program expense ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 5

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -42.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -59.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 6.5% of revenue deployed · 4.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 6/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.