Friends of Santa Claus Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
561911960
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Tega Cay, SC, USA
Phone
8033703437
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$47,445
Expenses
$29,788
Assets
$180,757

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARY JONES (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • MOLLY DUGAN (CO-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MARY JONES (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • LOU DALRYMPLE (VICE PRESIDE)
  • MATT BURT (SECRETARY/TR)

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

Give cancer childeren hope, a positive image, and the will to fight "one more round." providing emotional and financial support for the childern and families

What it reported doing in 2025

Funded tuition and travel expenses for children diagnosed with cancer, removing financial barriers and allowing them to experience a safe, medically supervised camp environment alongside peers facing similar health crises. Contributes directly to coca-aligned oncology camps to fund critical facility upgrades, and staff support. These initiatives directly enhanced the physical safety, medical capabilities, and overall capacity of the camp facilities, ensuring that high-risk children received vital emotional support, peer connection, and specialized care in a modernized, secure setting.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.3%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 37.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.07; rating input score 86; 86th 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: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.3% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 59/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.