Us Board on Books for Young People Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132971723
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wheeling, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6039371197
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,373
- Expenses
- $87,244
- Assets
- $334,663
- Liabilities
- $875
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Junko Yokota (Executive Director)
- Susan Polos (President)
People named in this filing
- Junko Yokota (Executive Director)
- Susan Polos (President)
- James Stiles (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
To promote international understanding and social welfare through children's literature
What it reported doing in 2025
Organize International Children's literature Conference with over 200 attendees; disseminate conference proceedings; Maintain website; recognize award winning authors and titles; provide support to partner libraries
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.9%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 37.8%; rating input score 38
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: 7.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.84; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.9% of revenue deployed · 37.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.