Beaver Island Irish Heritage Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934399249
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Beaver Island, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2313570231
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,088
- Expenses
- $154,875
- Assets
- $99,359
- Liabilities
- $1,057
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL COLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHLEEN MCNAMARA (EXECUTIVE DI)
- PAUL COLE (PRESIDENT)
- ANGELA LEFEVRE WELKE (VICE CHAIRPE)
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
As stated in its articles of incorporation, the corporation's mission and purpose is to present authentic and varied activities to recognize, showcase, and preserve beaver island's unique irish heritage including its connection to arranmore island, county donegal, ireland, to engage and enrich the quality the quality of life of residents and visitors to beaver island. Biihg's signature event is the annual emerald isle irish feile, biihg solicits, receives, and administers funds for reasonably related purposes as set forth in section 501(c)3 of the internal revenue code, including making distributions for such purposes to other organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under irc section 501(c)3.
What it reported doing in 2025
The purpose is to present authentic and varied activities to recognize, showcase, and preserve beaver islands unique irish heritage including its connection to arranmore island, county donegal, ireland.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
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: 19.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $135K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.