Ancient Free Masons of South Caroli Summerville Masonic Lodge 234
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237537684
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Summerville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8434427848
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,355
- Expenses
- $121,158
- Assets
- $292,626
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- RODNEY BRETT STRICKLAND (WORSHIPFUL M)
- GREGG ALAN GRIFFITHS PM (TREASURER)
- CAREY D BAXLEY JR PDDGM (PDDGM)
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
To promote a way of life that binds like-minded men in worldwide brotherhood that transcends all religious, ethnic, cultural, social and educational differences; by teaching the great principle of brotherly love, relief and truth; and, by the outward expression of these through its fellowship, its compassion and its concern, to find ways in which to serve god, family, country, neightbor and self.
What it reported doing in 2025
Teach the art freemasonry to all men of good character thus inspiring them to practice the art of freemasonry in their homes, communities and daily lives. Supporting commuinty projects and scholarship and supporting masonic relief, associated youth organizations and women's organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.