Scio Memorial Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 166053412
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Scio, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5855934816
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,332
- Expenses
- $63,858
- Assets
- $80,441
- Liabilities
- $1,207
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debra Root (President)
- Carol Bush (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Debra Root (President)
- Carol Bush (Vice President)
- Carolyn Miller (Secretary)
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 be the place where our community members go to seek information and materials which might enlighten, entertain and develop their creativity in an open and nonjudgmental environment. The Scio Memorial Library provides: Print and Audiovisual Materials, Electronic Resources, Space for Meetings and Creativity inside the building and in the park.
What it reported doing in 2025
Childrens Programs: 1,000 Books before Kindergarten & Reading in the Gazebo. Young Adult Programs: Summer Reading & Summer Crafts. Adult Programs: Friends and Neighbors, Book Club, & Senior Crafts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.5%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.