Daufuskie Island Historical Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311752504
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Daufuskie Island, SC, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,694
- Expenses
- $55,363
- Assets
- $300,025
- Liabilities
- $6,380
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Geoff Brunning (President)
- Sam Waters (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Geoff Brunning (President)
- Nancy Ludtke (Executive Dir.)
- Sam Waters (Vice President)
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
Operation of museum complex 4 days per week, development of displays, special events celebrating the history of the island, spproximately 2000 visitors per year to museum, 500 annually participate in the events
What it reported doing in 2025
Operation of museum complex 4 days per week, development of displays, special events celebrating the history of he island, approximately 2000 visitors per year to museum, 500 annually participate in events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 43
- Growth: 60
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: -26.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.42; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
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 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.