Lowcountry Mediation Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421748654
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8435762810
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,113
- Expenses
- $71,886
- Assets
- $80,412
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JILL EM HALEVI (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN A MASSALON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TYLA N BOWMAN (DIRECTOR)
- GREG PERRY (DIRECTOR)
- MICHAEL SAMUEL (DIRECTOR)
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
Provide affordable, high-quality mediation services to resolve conflict while growing an experienced pool of mediators to serve the community. Greg Perry, a native of North Charleston, has dedicated his life to serving others and making a positive impact on his community. Recognizing the importance of support and assistance, Greg founded a nonprofit in 2009 aimed at helping single moms with their everyday needs. Greg has spent his life seeking to be for others what he wishes someone would be for him if he found himself in that same circumstance. Greg has been actively involved in various roles within his community. He has served as a mentor, youth basketball coach, and even an adopted father figure at schools for young boys. Furthermore, Greg selflessly served as a volunteer Chaplain at the detention center in North Charleston, off.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing affordable, high quality mediation services to resolve disputes. Lmc matches qualified mediators with qualified parties seeking quality low-cost mediation services using a volunteer service model. Lmc serves low-income families, the court system, neighborhoods and communities.all our mediators serve on a volunteer basis. Lmc mediators offer their time and expertise to grow the understanding and use of mediation and mediative approaches in resolving conflict in our community, both inside and outside the court system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.2%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 59% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 48.2% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.