Able South Carolina Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582336332
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037795121
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,995,194
- Expenses
- $5,966,173
- Assets
- $3,661,859
- Liabilities
- $846,365
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kimberly Tissot (President & CEO)
- David Dawson (Past President)
- Keith Bogart (Board President)
- Beth Ruffin (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kimberly Tissot (President & CEO): $142,791 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Able South Carolina (Able SC) is a disability-led organization with a mission to equip people with disabilities with tools to foster pride and direct their own lives; educate the community to challenge stereotypes and eliminate barriers; and advocate for access, independence, opportunity, and the rights of disabled people.Able SC serves people of all ages and all disabilities. During the year, we directly served more than 4,000 disabled people while working to improve communities and systems throughout South Carolina. With approximately one in three South Carolinians living with a disability, our work addresses barriers that affect a significant portion of our state.Able SC is at the forefront of advancing independence, accessibility, and opportunity for disabled people. Through direct services, peer support, education, community partnerships, and systems advocacy, we work to remove barriers and ensure disabled people have the opportunity to make their own choices and fully participate
What it reported doing in 2024
Able South Carolina (Able SC) is a disability-led organization with a mission to equip people with disabilities with tools to foster pride and direct their own lives; educate the community to challenge stereotypes and eliminate barriers; and advocate for access, independence, opportunity, and the rights of disabled people.Able SC serves people of all ages and all disabilities. During the year, we directly served more than 4,000 disabled people while working to improve communities and systems throughout South Carolina. With approximately one in three South Carolinians living with a disability, our work addresses barriers that affect a significant portion of our state.Able SC is at the forefront of advancing independence, accessibility, and opportunity for disabled people. Through direct services, peer support, education, community partnerships, and systems advocacy, we work to remove barriers and ensure disabled people have the opportunity to make their own choices and fully participate in their communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 87% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: -19.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.3% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 19 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $378K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Conflict-of-interest policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.