Stark Library
Legal name: Stark County District Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 346000510
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Canton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 330.452.0665
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,765,988
- Expenses
- $25,887,674
- Assets
- $37,825,106
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Ellen Icaza (Executive Director)
- Steven Pittman (President Board of Trustees)
- Susan Rodgers (Vice President Board of Trustees)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary Ellen Icaza (Executive Director): $143,550 total reported compensation
- Chris Butler (Fiscal Officer): $109,201 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Providing the services of a public library
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.2%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 64.9%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 49.2% of revenue deployed · 64.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.