Ulysses Library Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251399411
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ulysss, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8148487226
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,703
- Expenses
- $86,457
- Assets
- $409,186
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Benjamin Olney (President)
- Lori Nelson (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Sherrill Graves (Director)
- Bonnie Merkey (Assistant)
- Miriam Howe (Substitute)
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
Public library
What it reported doing in 2025
A total of 32 programs were held this year with 524 in attendance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.7%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 3%; rating input score 3
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.73; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.7% of revenue deployed · 3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.