Abbeville County Chamber of Commerce
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570737855
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Abbeville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8643664600
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,800
- Expenses
- $97,821
- Assets
- $49,623
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- ALISON STONE (BOARD MEMBER)
- ANNA LAGRONE (EXECUTIVE DI)
- BETH BOYD (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The abbeville county chamber of commerce is a nonprofit with the mission of promoting business, developing tourism, and serving the townships of abbeville county, including abbeville, due west, donalds, calhoun falls, and lowndesville. We recognize that business and tourism are intertwined for abbeville, and the services and programs we provide address both needs. For our businesses, we offer a range of programs and services to strengthen them. Our promotional avenues to make our businesses more visible include digital ads, traditional print ads, and radio ads, and we offer development opportunities like our business education classes to all members at no cost. Through programs like the brew and business after hours, we connect businesses with the community and foster business-to-business connections. Our ambassador program is another tool for business exposure; it allows member businesses to have a representative at chamber events and to be a part of important events like grand openin
What it reported doing in 2025
Sponsorship and management of community events in order to raise awareness of local business and to promote tourism attractions within the county.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.6%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.7%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 35%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.6% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.