Friends of the Wareham Free Library Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042585869
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wareham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5083955711
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,835
- Expenses
- $47,666
- Assets
- $137,459
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Priscilla Porter (President)
People named in this filing
- Priscilla Porter (President)
- Linda Scharf (Treasurer)
- Nancy Cushman Rice (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
To support Warehams Public Library
What it reported doing in 2025
The officers, board members, and other volunteerscontinued to raise funds to help fund the operationof the Towns public library system
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.88; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38% of revenue deployed · 43.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.