Michigan Academic Library Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471922665
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5174812018
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,186
- Expenses
- $106,415
- Assets
- $268,237
- Liabilities
- $38,997
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARLENE JOHNSON-BIGNOTTI (PAST PRESIDENT)
- JULIE GARRISON (VP/PRESIDENT-ELECT)
People named in this filing
- GINA BOLGER (PRIVATE COLLEGE REP)
- REBECCA TULL (PRIVATE COLLEGE REP)
- KELLI HERM (COMMUNITY COLLEGE REP)
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
To provide opportunities for professional development, leadership, and committee service for all librarians, library staff, and library students working in higher education.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization hosted several events, online training, and conferences throughout the tax year: leadership retreat - 40 attendeesmiala 2025 annual conference - 155 attendeesmix conferences - 35 attendeesten virtual events including 1 writing retreat, 1 miala mid-winter virtual membership meeting and 8 cataloging and metadata interest group coffee hours
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
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: -6.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.1% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.