Palmetto State Watch Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994361499
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Blythewood, SC, USA
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,898
- Expenses
- $65,975
- Assets
- $16,409
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Janis Price (Vice President and Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Anna Herron (Secretary)
- Robert Harris (Director)
- Alaina Moore (Chairman of the Board)
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
Palmetto State Watch Foundation was created to educate citizens of South Carolina regarding their constitutional rights and local politics. This organization will support citizens by providing factual information on current issues that impact South Carolina. We believe in the natural rights provided to every individual by God through our Constitution. By providing meticulous research and informative classes this Foundation will educate South Carolinians on their freedoms and the current events taking place in their local areas and in the state capital. It is our goal to assist in culminating a fully informed voter base that uses all of the facts to create a better community for their families and future generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Foundation conducted 14 speaking engagements before civic groups community organizations and public audiences in locations across South Carolina during 2025. In conjunction with each event staff met individually with community members to discuss the Foundations mission gather local concerns and recruit engaged citizens to support civic accountability efforts. These activities expanded the Foundations reach into communities across the state and furthered its educational mission regarding government transparency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.