The Book Truck Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453025073
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Long Beach, CA, USA
Phone
8058074912
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Libraries

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,154
Expenses
$373,563
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELIZABETH DRAGGA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JULIE SANDOR (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ELIZABETH DRAGGA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JULIE SANDOR (PRESIDENT)
  • MARGARET ETTYANG (SECRETARY)

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 empower underserved youth and young adults through literature based enrichment programming. The book truck will help these youth and young adults build personal resiliency and become self-motivated learners by connecting them with high interest reading materials and creating communities of readers.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided free books and literacy programing to homeless, foster care, and low-income youth. From july 2025 - june 2026, approximately 8,300 teens participated in our programming and over 14,600 books were given away.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 3
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -501%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $318K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.