The Friends of the Plainville Public Library Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222537895
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Plainville, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5086951784
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-16,241
- Expenses
- $5,205
- Assets
- $95,077
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANDRA M PEARL (PRESIDENT)
- NICHOLOS E ALLIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SANDRA M PEARL (PRESIDENT)
- JULIA B HOWELLS (SECRETARY)
- THERESA MURPHY (TREASURER)
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
The purpose of the friends of the plainville public library, inc. Is to assist the library in the purchase of items, sponsoring of programs, which the library budget itself cannot finance, and promote projects that enhance the relationship of the library with the general public, schools and business community. We funded 42 programs, which were open to the general public and attended by 3612 people, purchased 19 museum passes, 6 magazine subscriptions and purchased 43 items from staff's wish list.
What it reported doing in 2025
42 programs attended by 3,612 people, purchased 19 museum passes, purchased 6 magazine subscriptions, purchased 43 items from staff's wish list.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -132%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 18.27; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -119.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.