Harney County Library Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 931298975
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2016–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2009
Location: Burns, OR, USA
Rating: 69
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue: $152,643
Expenses: $150,827
Assets: $92,358

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Fred Flippence (President)

People named in this filing

Donna Schnitker (Secretary)
Helen Hardwick (Director)
Mike Laiosa (Director)

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

Promotion and support of the Harney County Library and literary programs. Servicing all Harney County residents and visitors.

What it reported doing in 2024

Harney County Library General Support

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

SUPPORTED - 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 total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 46
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 38
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 46%; rating input score 46
Program expense ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 47

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -37.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 46% of revenue deployed · 46.6% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
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 46/100.
Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.