Utah Library Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 876119455
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Orem, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8013674316
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,283
- Expenses
- $143,180
- Assets
- $95,923
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Patrick Hoercherl (Past President)
- Erin Warnick (President)
- Michael Whitchurch (President Elect)
- Mindy Hale (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Patrick Hoercherl (Past President)
- Erin Warnick (President)
- Michael Whitchurch (President Elect)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the Utah Library Association is to serve the professional development and educational needs of its members and to provide leadership and direction in developing and improving library and information services in the state. In order to accomplish these goals, ULA provides continuing education programs for Utah librarians and library employees, especially at its annual spring conference. The Association also initiates and supports legislation promoting library development and monitors legislation that might threaten Utah libraries and librarians. ULA offers members a number of opportunities for library leadership, professional growth, networking, and community service. We hope that you will find the Utah Library Association to be an organization that makes a difference for you, for Utah librarians, for Utah Libraries, and for the citizens of Utah.
What it reported doing in 2024
Distinguished Service Award: To recognize a member of the Utah Library Association with the most significant record of contribution throughout her/his career. Librarian of the Year Award: To recognize a member of the Utah Library Association with the most outstanding contribution to librarianship in the State of Utah for the previous calendar year. Special Service to Libraries Award: To recognize an individual or group who has demonstrated remarkable support for libraries and librarians through a single effort or sustained contribution. Special Recognition Award: This special award strives to recognize librarians who have served in or assisted with the management of ULA in leadership or organizational positions. Legislative Award for Excellence in Political Affairs and Library Advocacy: To recognize an individual or group who has demonstrated consistent dedication to being an advocate for libraries on the national, state, or local political stage. Outreach Award: To recognize an individual or group who has made notable outreach efforts to expand library services or access to information to underrepresented populations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.