Military Order of The Stars & Bars Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
621147741
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2007
Location
Wilmington, NC, USA
Phone
9103954499
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$119,345
Expenses
$85,430
Assets
$730,184
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jon Trent (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jon Trent (Executive Director): $23,100 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The society is a literary, historical, benevolent, educational, and non-political organization that seeks to cultivate the ties of friendship among the relatives of the confederal officer corps and to provide leadership

What it reported doing in 2024

MOS&B Literary awards are awarded annually to when qualified receipients are nominated. The Douglas Southall Freeman history award for the best published book of high merit in the field of southern history beginning with the colonial period to the present time; the Randall Bracin Jones History teacher of the year is given to an outstanding history teacher who has been nominated by a member; The Jones Esten Cooke Fiction award for the best pubished book of fiction that portrays characters and events dealing with the war between the states, confederate heritage or southern history in a historically accurate fashion, and the General Basil W. Duke Award for the best re-issurance of out of print books that accurately present the history of The War for Soutern Independence. Each award receipient receives a check and an appropriate trophy. The Freeman and Cooke Awards are presented to the author. The Jones Award is presented to the teacher. The Freeman Award has been given since 1989, The Jones Award beginning in 2014, The Cooke Award since 1989, and the Duke Award since 1997. In 2024, $3,150 was awarded to four receipients for the Freeman, Jones, Cooke, and Duke Awards.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 63
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 28.4%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.55; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $23K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.