Henderson Free Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150561711
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Henderson, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3159387169
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,569
- Expenses
- $74,545
- Assets
- $116,426
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Melissa Drake (President of Library Board)
- Barbara Greene (Vice President of Board)
People named in this filing
- Ashley Morrison (Director)
- Melissa Drake (President of Library Board)
- Sara Treadwell (Board trustee)
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
Being a library for the community, offering books to loan out, community activities
What it reported doing in 2025
Summer reading program .. 307 total participants, 118 children (0-12) 13 teens, 197 adults
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 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: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.7%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 3
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.5%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.7% of revenue deployed · 3.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.