Seas the Day Mobile Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853603919
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4054658712
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,954
- Expenses
- $200,056
- Assets
- $118,173
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Teresa Day (Executive Director)
- Katricia Thompson (President)
- Carlesia Thompson (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Teresa Day (Executive Director)
- Karyn Russell (Treasurer)
- Katricia Thompson (President)
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 purpose of our organization is to provide a safe but challenging environment, not only in reading and literacy, but also in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and to maximize personal growth and lifelong learning and ensure students are well equipped with content knowledge and skills to solve complex problems in the real world.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Seas the Day Mobile Library significantly expanded its impact across Oklahoma City, bringing literacy, technology access, and educational programming directly into underserved communities. We traveled throughout neighborhoods, schools, apartment communities, and community centers, providing free books, tutoring, STEM education, and digital resources to PreK-8 students who may not otherwise have access. Throughout the year, we distributed thousands of free books to children and families, helping build home libraries and encouraging a lifelong love of reading. Our mobile library also provided technology access through onboard computers, allowing students to complete homework, participate in STEM activities, and explore digital learning opportunities. In 2025, we also hosted community literacy events and Book Walks, including the Pages in the Park Book Walk series, which brought stories to life in outdoor community spaces. These events encouraged families to read together while making literacy fun and interactive. Through partnerships with local organizations and national supporters, our programs continued to grow. Highlights included national recognition through a Disney Christmas Day Special and the donation of 1,000 books, allowing us to further expand our reach to children across Oklahoma City. Additionally, we helped bridge the digital divide by providing laptops to students in need through community partnerships, ensuring children have the tools necessary to succeed in school. By meeting families where they are...at schools, housing communities, and neighborhood gathering spaces-Seas the Day Mobile Library is helping remove barriers to education and building a stronger culture of literacy across our city.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
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: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.7%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 5
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.7% of revenue deployed · 5.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.