Brunswick County Literacy Council Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581523092
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Supply, NC, USA
Phone
9107547323
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$108,580
Expenses
$108,161
Assets
$134,802
Liabilities
$34,859

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Melissa Warren (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Melissa Warren (Executive Director)
  • Sue Railing (Program Director)
  • Peggy Cremonese (Co-Chair, Director)

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

Provide Adult Literacy, GED preparation and English as a second language (ESL) to adults, 16 and older.

What it reported doing in 2025

One-on-one Tutoring Learners benefited. Learners strengthen essential reading, writing, math, and school equivalency credentials that open doors to better job opportunities and career pathways.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 65% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 3.4%; rating input score 3
  • Program expense ratio: 3%; rating input score 3

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: 0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 57.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 3.4% of revenue deployed · 3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.