The Lantern Bryn Mawr Bookshop

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521615538
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,005
Expenses
$100,321
Assets
$367,229

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Susan Flinn (Board President)
  • Caroline Willis (Vice President)
  • Elizabeth Williams (Past President - Ex Officio)

People named in this filing

  • Susan Flinn (Board President)
  • Caroline Willis (Vice President)
  • Abigail Bruhlmann (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

Raising funds for scholarships for students at Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr PA. All profits go to the college to support students summer internships.

What it reported doing in 2025

The mission of The Lantern Bookshop is to provide financial assistance to students at Bryn Mawr College. On June 4 2025 was donated to the college. The funds donated by The Lantern are used to support internships so students can pursue areas of interest related to their academic scholarship. Approximately four students each summer receive funds specifically from The Lantern. Since its founding in 1978 The Lantern as donated almost 1 million to Bryn Mawr Collage.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.66; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.