St Jerome Homeschool Library

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471957151
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Fairbanks, IN, USA
Phone
8125724293
Rating
43
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Libraries
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$100,386
Expenses
$101,581
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Scott Foster (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Scott Foster (Executive Director)
  • Nicole Foster (Creative Director)
  • Jude Foster (Operations Manager)

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 publish and provide affordable educational options for traditional Catholic homeschoolers, students and teachers in private Catholic schools, as well as donating books and materials to low-income families in need and helping Catholics in their work of educating children and adults in the faith.

What it reported doing in 2025

Approximately 1000 customers engaged stjeromelibrary.org for obtaining homeschool and Catholic educational materials for the purpose of achieving their profound vocation of educating largely Catholic children and also many adults in general education in a manner complimentary to the Catholic Faith, and growing in knowledge of the Catholic Religion. Any and all proceeds were either reinvested in the exempt purpose or donated with no private inurement occurring.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 40

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: -1.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -64.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th 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 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.