Crime Stoppers of the Midlands Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570736215
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037497801
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,867
- Expenses
- $16,978
- Assets
- $96,462
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
People named in this filing
- Cathy Cooper (Chair)
- Marc Marowitz (Vice-Chair)
- Donna Bezak (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The collection of information for law enforcement to receive anonymous tips and to pay rewards for the relative information which will improve the quality of life for South Carolinians.
What it reported doing in 2025
Collected information for law enforcement to receive anonymous tips and paid rewards for the relative information which improved the quality of life for South Carolinians.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 72% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. 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: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.2%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 52.8%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.68; rating input score 85; 85th 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: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.2% of revenue deployed · 52.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 33 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.