Matt Blackwell Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 571127141
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lancaster, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8032874790
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,891
- Expenses
- $12,414
- Assets
- $16,840
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Larry Blackwell (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Larry Blackwell (Executive Director)
- Janice Blackwell (Secretary)
- Butch Small (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 Matt Blackwell Foundation's purpose is to help Lancaster County youth achieve success in life by providing sponsorships and scholarships to youth based on their financial need. To continue to fund the Matt Blackwell Foundation Endowed Scholarship at Clemson University.
What it reported doing in 2025
Clemson University Foundation for Matt Blackwell Foundation scholarship endowment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 65% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 56; 56th 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: -18% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.4% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.