Friends of Brunswick Townfort Friends of Brunswick Town/fort

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
581515100
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Winnabow, NC, USA
Phone
9103716613
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$23,660
Expenses
$18,037
Assets
$113,075
Liabilities
$2,627

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALAN FERRELL (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ALAN FERRELL (PRESIDENT)
  • MARVIN JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDE)
  • ASHLEY SIMONS-RUDOLPH (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

The friends of brunswick town/fort anderson's mission is to support the site staff in preserving, interpreting and promoting the history of brunswick town/fort anderson state historic site.

What it reported doing in 2024

Brunswick town/fort anderson is unique among North Carolina's state historic sites. Located in a high bluff on the west bank of the cape fear river, the site is fourteen miles from the bar where the cape fear and the atlantic meet.. Visitors may stroll through history from the 1720's to the 1860's, from the excavated colonial town to a formidable abandoned confederate civil war fort. The friends of brunswick town/fort anderson achieved its mission to support the staff of brunswick town/fort anderson state historic site by holding a variety of tours and events on site, raising funds for site improvements and providing volunteer staffing at the site. Colonial heritage day and 18th century christmas are examples of events held on site.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.1%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.8%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.27; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.1% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.