Syd's Book Shack & Boutique
Legal name: Syds Book Shack & Boutique Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862629719
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Guilford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2036895632
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,259
- Expenses
- $98,785
- Assets
- $901
- Liabilities
- $15,686
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- MEREDITH DAGGETT (OFFICER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To raise funding and awareness to help non-verbal people access talkers (typically a tablet with a speech program) in order to find their "voice"/communicate through assistive technology. Our mission also includes giving people of all abilities work experience in a supported environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Purchase of talkers to benefit non verbal special needs individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 85% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 17.41; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -55.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.