Virginia Library Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237440121
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fisherville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5403249521
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $491,046
- Expenses
- $457,169
- Assets
- $694,309
- Liabilities
- $12,519
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer A Scott Brown (Executive Director)
- Nancy Falciani (President)
- Zach Elder (President-Elect)
- Kelsey Cheshire (2nd Vice President)
- Margaret Howard (2nd Vice President)
- Nan Carmack (Board President)
Highest reported compensation
- Lisa Varga (Former Exe Director): $38,568 total reported compensation
- Jennifer A Scott Brown (Executive Director): $26,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Purpose of the Virginia library association shall be to develop, promote, and improve library and information services, library staff and the profession of librarianship in order to advance literacy and learning and to ensure access to information in the commonwealth of Virginia
What it reported doing in 2025
Conferences and forums: continuing education opportunites and bringing together members to further educational and literacy goals
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 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $155.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Missing
- Other executive compensation review process: Missing
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $426K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $39K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.