Wood Library Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
160755896
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Canandaigua, NY, USA
Phone
5853941381
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,906,968
Expenses
$1,501,077
Assets
$10,885,045
Liabilities
$1,093,984

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVE GLEASON (PRESIDENT)
  • REBECCA PATROS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JENNY GOODEMOTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNY GOODEMOTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $119,593 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wood library's mission: to support the public good and to protect the right to learn for all.

What it reported doing in 2025

Wood library is a free association library chartered to serve the canandaigua city school district and is open 7 days a week. As a member of the four-county 42 member owwl library system, it offers free services to residents of ontario, wayne, Wyoming, and livingston counties. In 2025 wood library saw a 28% increase in the number of people who visited the library, with 107,929 coming through the doors. More cardholders checked out more items! 12,305 patrons used their library card to check out 170,301 items. Downloadable books continue to be popular with patrons downloading 74,116 (26% increase) ebooks and audiobooks. Staff supported reference requests, provided tech help, and notary services, which saw an increase of 11%. More patrons than the previous year attended wood library's live programs for all ages. Programs included book discussions, film series, craft programs, cooking classes, storytimes, book reviews, author talks, support groups, and various educational lectures. Adults who attended digital literacy classes learned computer basics and software programs. Problem devices could also be brought in and discussed with a tech tutor. In all, 18,515 patrons participated in 1,170 programs. Public internet computers were used 15,249 times in 2025 (77% increase), and patrons logged 8,937 wireless sessions. Patrons rely on the library's internet access to conduct research, write reports and resumes, pay bills, apply for jobs, make reservations, apply for unemployment, bank online, take online courses and check email. The library's many public hotspots for loan are popular among library patrons. Over 600 people received tax aide assistance through a partnership with aarp, an increase of 30%. Wood library continues to loan museum passes for area attractions. Community rooms are available to outside groups for free and were reserved over 1,000 times in 2025. Local artists can also display their work to gain exposure. New initiatives were added in 2025, including the grand opening of a new outdoor space the wood library reading garden. An updated multi-year strategic plan was announced in 2025 complete with goals and action steps to ensure that wood library continues to meet the needs of the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 74%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.25; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.4% of revenue deployed · 74% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 14 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $568K reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.