Be the Change Charleston Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834278401
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- North Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037670663
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,718
- Expenses
- $57,875
- Assets
- $15,126
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shaina Bermudez (President Job Coach)
- Halie Tumbleston (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Shaina Bermudez (President Job Coach)
- Halie Tumbleston (Executive Director)
- Amy Hatten (ETE Coach)
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
Empowerment through Employment Program: Our Empowerment Through Employment Program is a highly individualized program designed to empower individuals with disabilities by providing them with an ETE Coach, who supports them with self-identifying & achieving goals around job readiness skills, employment skills, and life skills. Our ETE Coaches support participants with self-identifying & achieving goals around developing skills among job readiness, employment, & life skills.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we provided individualized employment services to 25 disabled adults with 4 job coaches through 1500+ hours of support in job readiness and seeking skill development, mentorship, and job coaching.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 73.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -48.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.