Growing Roots

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814410201
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$53,700
Expenses
$58,329
Assets
$6,912

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Leah Beidler (President)
  • Ryna Demarse (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Leah Beidler (President)
  • Ryna Demarse (Vice President)
  • Elizabeth Cressy (Treasurer)

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 mission of Growing Roots is to partner with communities in Haiti through loving and lifetime relationships and cultivate fruitful experiences for their communities. To fulfill this mission Growing Roots facilitates summer programming for over 750 children and youth as well as partners with families around educational needs year round.

What it reported doing in 2025

Camp Hope provides summer camp programming and meals for over 750 children and youth. The younger children participate in arts enrichment games theatre soccer clinics health lessons and are provided a daily meal. The camp functions in two areas. In Cite Soleil the camp functions for 4 weeks. In Passe Cataboise the camp functions for 3 weeks. Camp Hope also facilitates soccer clinics for 3 weeks in Cite Soleil serving 50 children a week. Older youth participate in workshops designed and led by young adults in their communities such as basket weaving crochet drawing painting jewelry making leather work decorative sewing creating tin art and baking.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90

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: -8.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th 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: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -50.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.