Poestenkill Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161536461
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Poestenkill, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5182833721
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,938
- Expenses
- $127,477
- Assets
- $197,859
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Meg McClellan (President, Board of Trustees)
- Cathy Place (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Meg McClellan (President, Board of Trustees)
- Susan Pattenaude (Secretary)
- Edward Gresens (Fiscal Officer)
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
Provides public library services to the Town Of Poestenkill, NY and adjacent localities.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 the Poestenkill Library was open 30 hours each week. The library had 9318 visits by 1131 registered patrons. 16008 items were borrowed. There were 220 various program such as Winter and Summer Reading programs for children and adults. Also programs for information and entertainment were offered. 2446 participants took advantage of these programs. As a member of the Upper Hudson Library System the Poestenkill Library participates in an Interlibrary Loan System. in 2025, 3845 items were borrowed by the library's patrons and 5458 items were provided to other libraries in the System. The Poestenkill Library also provides electronic access to materials such as movies and books. In 2025 10953 items were borrowed using electronic access.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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
MIXED - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 4.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.