Pickens County Historical Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
570977355
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Pickens, SC, USA
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,413
Expenses
$46,998
Assets
$238,556

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ken Nabors Medically Indisposed (President)
  • Wayne Kelley Interim President (Senior Vice-President)
  • Richard Painter (Pickens Area Vice-President)
  • James Atkinson (Six Mile Area Vice-President)
  • Francine Robertshaw (Liberty Area Vice-President)
  • Tim Drake (Clemson Area Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Ken Nabors Medically Indisposed (President)
  • Wayne Kelley Interim President (Senior Vice-President)
  • Martha Seaborn-Bolding (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To perpetuate and disseminate historical knowledge artifacts, and heritage from prehistoric times to the present and to protect preserve historically significant structures and places of Pickens County South Carolina. The Pickens County Historical Society also maintains repairs renovates and operates the Hagood-Mauldin House as an historical museum.

What it reported doing in 2024

The PCHS maintains repairs and refurbishes the antebellum Hagood-Mauldin House as a museum.of history and fine arts in order to present programs relating to history and to conduct tours led by docents for hundreds of visitors school groups and civic organizations.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.08; rating input score 84; 84th 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: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.