Foundation For Ethical Stewardship Of Cu
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920444130
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,852
- Expenses
- $33,044
- Assets
- $609
- Liabilities
- $103
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Daniels (President)
People named in this filing
- Mireille Lee (Executive Dir.)
- Brian Daniels (President)
- Maura-Lee Albert (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
FESCH works with experts in provenance research to make undocumented antiquities known, and to train the next generation of researchers.
What it reported doing in 2025
The inaugural project of FESCH is the Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance MAPRA. MAPRA brings together subject matter experts, including academics, museum professionals, and data scientists, to establish standards and create a protocol for provenance research on objects from the ancient Mediterranean.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -125.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -116.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -130% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.