Meridian Library Foundation
Legal name: Meridian Library District Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834381711
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Meridian, ID, US
- Phone
- 208-888-4451 x1015
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,035
- Expenses
- $78,847
- Assets
- $124,209
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eryn Turner (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Eryn Turner (Executive Director)
- Jake Tolman (Board Chair)
- Karla Hansen (Vice Chair)
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
The mission of the Meridian Library Foundation is to support the growth and sustainability of the Meridian Library District by raising funds to ensure equal access to information, resources, and public spaces. Through philanthropic partnerships, the Foundation supports improvements that promote literacy, work readiness, and lifelong learning. Guided by our values of access, community, education, and integrity, we are dedicated to enhancing library services and ensuring the library remains a vital resource for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
District Wide Capital (New Youth Books) - completing a 50k pledge for new books
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
REVIEW - 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: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.5%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 4
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 59; 59th 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: -91.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -36.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 3.5% of revenue deployed · 3.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.