CareSouth Carolina
Legal name: Caresouth Carolina Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570664826
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hartsville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 843-857-0111
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulatory Health Center, Community Clinic
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,213,612
- Expenses
- $82,641,985
- Assets
- $48,482,445
- Liabilities
- $19,198,698
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CECILIA ADUAKO MD (MEDICAL DOCT): $579,527 total reported compensation
- MS ANN LEWIS (CHIEF EXECUT): $318,488 total reported compensation
- DR STEVE SMITH (CHIEF MEDICA): $298,387 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We enhance and improve the health and wellbeing of everyone. Values We openly serve our patients and community partners with integrity, collaboration, fairness, and excellence. CareSouth Carolina. Behavioral Health** — One-on-one and group mental health counseling services are provided by counselors who understand the needs of HIV/AIDS clients. Counselors assist with everything from substance abuse to depression, and they provide the opportunity for clients to experience positive lifestyle changes. Like the medical care, these services are provided in an integrated primary care setting that alleviates the stigma associated with behavioral health services. Dental** — Dental services, a crucial component of HIV/AIDS care, is provided through access and payment for limited services. Transportation** — We understand that the lack of transportation is sometimes a barrier to needed care, so.
What it reported doing in 2024
As a federally qualified community health center and the pee dee area agency on aging or aged, disabled resource center, we build healthy communities, provide patient centered health care homes and deliver and coordinate community serivces for everyone, according to their ability to pay. We provide primary and preventative medical (including medical services provided at various schools by the mobile roads unit), pharmacy, dental (including dental services provided in various schools by our dental teams using the dental truck to transport our dental equipment to the schools also dental services provided by our dental team on our dental mobile unit at various clinic sites), chiropractic, outreach, and integrated behavioral health and social services. In addition to comprehensive services targeted to patients with HIV/AIDS. These services are provided at various locations in chesterfield, darlington, lee, dillon, florence, marion and marlboro counties in sc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $60.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $580K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $722K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.