Bourbon Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273491079
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5024953257
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,115
- Expenses
- $28,586
- Assets
- $9,359
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW FRENCH (PRESIDENT)
- MICHEAL QUEEN (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANDREW FRENCH (PRESIDENT)
- MICHEAL QUEEN (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- NICK HAYDEN (TREASURER)
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
The bourbon society was established for bourbon aficionados who want to deepen their understanding and appreciation of bourbon's culture, history, diversity and flavor profiles through open discussions, lectures and tastings.
What it reported doing in 2025
The bourbon society is focused on three core areas: bourbon, education, and philanthropy. At our very core, we have been chartered to represent the history, lore, and grandeur of one of the world's favorite spirits not to mention an unmistakable Kentucky tradition. Every decision we make is centered around the promotion of the industry of bourbon.education is the quintessential piece of the development process. Our goal is to build better, more informed members and ultimately embolden those members to expand their collection to include a wide range of variants. Development is underway for a full complement of educational courses that are designed to take those that love the spirit from simply consumers to entrenched bourbon connoisseurs. The curriculum is being crafted to incorporate coursework from beginner to certified bourbon society master. This pillar is being carefully created to work in tandem with our sensory collaboration partners. By intermingling coursework and events that encourage widening the breadth of our students (both member's and non-member's) preferred bourbon preferences, we inevitably create valuable and loyal members and consumers.philanthropy is ingrained in our dna since inception in 2006. Our charity focus has always been one that meets the needs of those that serve. Both those that serve in the food and beverage industry and those that serve and have served to protect our freedom. We strongly believe that bourbon and philanthropy can synergize each other in very unique ways.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 49
- Growth: NotEnoughData
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: 8.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
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 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.