Old Southwest Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541171833
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5403438794
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,304
- Expenses
- $10,780
- Assets
- $77,461
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SIMON MITCHELL-WOLF (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CARA BECKER (DIRECTOR)
- TERRY MCGUIRE (VICE-PRESIDE)
- SIMON MITCHELL-WOLF (PRESIDENT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Neighborhood preservation & community assistance
What it reported doing in 2024
Neighborhood preservation activities & awareness - maintain historic alexander gish house (1830) as community center and meeting house. Promote and assist homeowners in obtaining information on the old southwest roanoke historic district and architectural review board process.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.5%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.5%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.19; rating input score 89; 89th 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: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.