Blue Ridge Celtic Group

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842479832
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Mars Hill, NC, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,800
Expenses
$2,038
Assets
$27,630

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • J Mark Ferguson (President)
  • David N Donnell (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • J Mark Ferguson (President)
  • David N Donnell (Vice President)

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

Ancestral heritage and cultural education provided through seminars and interactive teaching sessions showcasing the lifestyle and working practices of settlers from the 1750s to 1890s.

What it reported doing in 2025

The festival platform significantly boosts the local economy for the event weekend. Attendees travel to the festival supporting local businesses like hotels restaurants and tourist attractions. Local artisans and contractors are engaged to set up the festival and offer services further benefiting the local economy.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

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: 46
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.56; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.