Military History Center of the Carolinas

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270822751
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Greenville, SC, USA
Phone
8644230748
Rating
37
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$24,375
Expenses
$24,756
Assets
$92,084
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Charles Barber (President)
  • Claudio Cantalupo (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Charles Barber (President)
  • Claudio Cantalupo (Vice President)
  • Susan Illner (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

Preserve Military History, Community Support, Education. the organization runs outreach programs to provide historical military displays and programs for schools, veterans organizations and government programs at the Federal, State, County and City levels. Organization also runs a Military History Museum, operating off donations and gift shop sales and 100% volunteer run.

What it reported doing in 2025

2024 - 4 federal events, 2 state of SC events, 13 SC City/county events, 19 school events hosted, 15 veterans groups and 24 other events. 77 total us national park service Cowpens National Military park, US Army Armor Collection Group at Fort Benning, GA; Cavalry Center at Fort Moore (aka Fort Benning).State of Virginia at its annual Jamestown Settlement Military Timeline. supported numerous home school groups at the museum. Supported the Fargo, ND Air Museum with a presentation.Supported the 501 st Group in Cartage, TN. Supported the Spartanburg County, SC, Historical Society. Supported the Military Timeline Event in partnership with the SC National Guard MuseumSupported the Military Timeline Event in partnership with the SC National Guard Museum

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.72; rating input score 79; 79th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -26.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 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
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.