Nickelson Media Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
863723311
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Elgin, SC, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,300
Expenses
$0
Assets
$3,000

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • James D Nickelson (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • James D Nickelson (Executive Director)
  • Sharlene Wingate (Board Member)
  • Felicia Doe (Board Member)

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

Developing Programs to mentor at risk youth in the community

What it reported doing in 2025

Hosted a Juneteenth Celebration to expose at risk youth and the community at large to the meaning and purpose of Juneteenth. Had youth to volunteer to assist vendors and artists. Hosted a seminar to educate and inspire. Approximately 2000 persons participated

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 4 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.