Mid-State Beekeepers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452551483
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8035094224
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,085
- Expenses
- $8,572
- Assets
- $43,600
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ray Hewitt (Vice President)
- Jackie Derrick (President)
People named in this filing
- Ray Hewitt (Vice President)
- Terrell Chastain (Treasurer)
- Jill Van Horn (Secretary)
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 purpose of this organization is to educate, support, and foster the skills of beekeepers using current best management practices, to share experience and methods on improving honey production for backyard beekeepers and businesses, and provide the members of the association an opportunity to purchase honey bees and queens. The association will also inform and educate the public on the importance of honey bees for pollination, food, and safe pesticide usage via community outreach and other events.
What it reported doing in 2025
We educated and trained 20 new beekeepers. We held 11 meetings with speakers on current topics for beekeepers in our region. We partnered with the State Beekeeping organization to host the Honey Bee booth at the State Fair to educate the general public about honey bees. We held hands on beekeeper training at a local bee yard at various times throughout the year and provided bees to club members, as needed.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.09; rating input score 84; 84th 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: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.