Longleaf Productions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611751155
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Greensboro, NC, USA
Phone
3363129708
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,000
Expenses
$5,380
Assets
$1,615
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Nathan T Lassiter (President)
  • Jere E Snyder (Vice President/CFO)

People named in this filing

  • Nathan T Lassiter (President)
  • Jere E Snyder (Vice President/CFO)
  • Patricia A Snyder (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

Longleaf Productions creates documentary films of historical, cultural, educational and environmental subjects that would otherwise be overlooked in order to make everyone aware of subjects and needs that go unnoticed or are buried in history.

What it reported doing in 2025

Siloam School Restoration. Film in progress documenting the moving and restoration of the Siloam School to its final home, The Charlotte Museum of History. Siloam School is the last of the Rosenwald design school remaining in Mecklenburg County. It was moved to the grounds of the Charlotte Museum of History where it will become a permanent exhibit portraying the history of African American education in the setting of a 1927 school house restored to the original. School Groups schedule regular excursions to the school during the years they study North Carolina and American History. It is the only such school that is restored to the way it was in the 1920's when the school was built meaning no electricity or air conditioning so that the visitors can really feel what the experience was students in that period of history.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 37.3%; rating input score 37

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -438%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -38.4% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -44.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -36.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 37.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.