Mid-valley Literacy Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272124566
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Salem, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034631488
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,878
- Expenses
- $170,334
- Assets
- $65,101
- Liabilities
- $7,757
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSAN MCNAUGHT (PRESIDENT)
- MICHELE GRIFFIN-CAMPIONE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SUSAN MCNAUGHT (PRESIDENT)
- ED NOYES (TREASURER)
- LYNDA BERSANI (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To empower adults with the literacy skills needed to increase economic stability and overall quality of family life.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mid-valley literacy center mobilizes caring volunteers to provide personalized literacy instruction in accessible settings for immigrants, refugees, and non-traditional adult learners, fostering economic opportunity, family well-being, and civic participation.we facilitated the work of 47 volunteer tutors, who contributed over 4,500 hrs of lesson preparation and instruction time. Tutoring services directly benefitted 210 individuals who took at least one 11-week class (often more) during the year. Mvlc students came from 24 different countries representing every continent except antarctica. We provided graded classes in english and spanish language, adult basic education, preparation for the ged test and us citizenship, and basic computer skills. We also provided on-site workplace english classes for employees of area businesses. Two major fund-raising events during the year raised both awareness of our services and some of the financial support essential to facilitating those services. Donated volunteer services valued at $184,848 were not included in ordinary program expenses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.8%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 32
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: -12.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.8% of revenue deployed · 31.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.