Sedona Public Library Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 866052627
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sedona, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9282827714
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,415,838
- Expenses
- $2,653,773
- Assets
- $7,329,888
- Liabilities
- $259,011
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAN GALLAGHER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JUDITH POE (LIBRARY DIRECTOR): $122,605 total reported compensation
- PAMELA LOGSDON (FINANCE OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Former): $83,759 total reported compensation
- ANNE MARIE MACKLER (DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR): $65,431 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sedona public library creates community by fostering lifelong learning and opens doors to the world through empowering information, inspiring ideas and engaging experiences
What it reported doing in 2024
Early literacy and youth engagement are core program areas for the library. Each month the library delivered approximately 25-35 programs supporting early learning, kindergarten readiness, and continued literacy engagement for school-age children and teens, with particular emphasis during the summer months. During fiscal year 2025, the librarys youth programming included the annual red rock reading program weekly storytimes at three locations weekly toddler timeand a storywalk installation at sunset park, an on-going outdoor literacy experience featuring 18 sequential story panels along a half mile walking path. Updated quarterly. Additional offerings included circulating s.t.e.a.m. Kits, annual science and theatre camps, weekly music programs, and teen programs such as chess club, hiking and cooking classes, creative workshops, and weekly teen hang-outs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 67% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.76; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.5% of revenue deployed · 68.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 17 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $234K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.