Greenville Area Public Library Association

What it reported doing in 2024

The library provides educational, cultural, and personal enrichment opportunities to all residents of the town of greenville, hempfield and sugar grove townships, and to any nonresident member. In 2024, we were open 2,332 hours for our 2,130 registered users plus visitors for a total of 20,325 library visits. Our members checked out 25,635 items, including 3,336 electronic items. This includes databases, ebooks, eaudiobooks, and emagazines. Library patrons also checked out 777 books from other libraries through interlibrary loan. The library had 50,746 physical items and 35,837 electronic items, plus access to 1,132 electronic periodical titles.along with the materials available through the library, we also offered 68 programs for ages birth5, 96 programs for ages 6 - 11, 266 programs for ages 12 - 18, and 135 programs for ages 19+, as well as 18 general interest program sessions, for a total of 565 live programs. 4,174 people attended those programs. These programs included story hours, readers' theater, movies, lego and other stem (science, technology, engineering & math) programs, young adult and tween book and art clubs, and craft programs. The library also offers passive programs that encourage visitors to participate in things such as counting, coloring, story writing, reading challenges, and putting together jigsaw puzzles. We had 133 of these selfdirected activities in 2024 with 2,664 people participating in them. The library provides six internet computers for general use as well as wifi for use within the library and on library grounds when we're closed. We have 1,672 users on our internet computers and an estimated 2,353 wifi uses.in 2024, we hosted a monthly retired teacher's book club, tutors working with students, therapeutic support staff working with clients, head start parent meetings, cyberschool testing, the mercer county court of common pleas domestic relations weekly meetings with clients, the midwestern intermediate unit 4 for early intervention meetings, friends of the library activities, and medical equipment training for new patients.we also have an outreach program to a local nursing home, taking a selection of books every other week for residents to check out.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
• Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $75.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 33.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.42; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings