Bartow County Extension 4-H
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581473058
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cartersville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7703875142
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,322
- Expenses
- $102,175
- Assets
- $124,753
- Liabilities
- $1,823
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
People named in this filing
- Paul Pugliese (County Extension Coordinator)
- Allison Perkins (County Extension Agent)
- Kim Payne (County Extension Program Assistant)
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 organize and administer 4-H, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Family and Consumer Science programs in Bartow County, Georgia.
What it reported doing in 2025
4-H Judging Team Competitions and Project Achievement: Competition expenses paid for youth to compete in individual projects on the county, district, state and national level. Supplies to provide experiential learning activities to promote public speaking, performing arts, food and nutrition, agriculture and natural resources in 60 project areas. Youth also participate in a variety of team judging events, S.A.F.E. shooting sports, as well as livestock shows.
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 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 33 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.