Charles Towne Landing Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570632174
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8436077300
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,775
- Expenses
- $19,546
- Assets
- $28,838
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAIGE STOWELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAIGE STOWELL (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID BAKER (PARK RANGER)
- CAROLINE THIBAULT (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assists charles towne landing (a state park) in promoting a living history educational program. The charity provides funds for projects not provided for in the annual state budget. Including lawn maintenance, landscaping, volunteer services, educational equipment, overall awareness and engagement, animal forest needs, park apparatuses such as benches, bird baths, picnic tables, and repairs to the site.
What it reported doing in 2024
A race to encourage awareness of charles towne landing and its history by encouraging people to enter the park.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -188.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 57; 57th 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: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.