Local Boys Do Good
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205093812
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Greenville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8646170231
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $732,509
- Expenses
- $740,820
- Assets
- $1,219,667
- Liabilities
- $24,653
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
People named in this filing
- CHRIS BEARD (BOARD MEMBER)
- GINA BOULWARE (BOARD MEMBER)
- KAMBER PARKER BOWDEN (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the organization is to: highlight the culinary and music arts community of upstate South Carolina; raise money to give back to the community; and create a destination event for food, wine, and music lovers accross the country.
What it reported doing in 2025
To highlight the culinary and music arts community of upstate South Carolina; to raise money to give back to the community; and to create a destination event for food, wine, and music lovers accross the country
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.5%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 52.7%; rating input score 53
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.5% of revenue deployed · 52.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $391K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 26 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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 56/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.