Professional Photographers of SC
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 571118014
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 5072695707
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Boards of Trade
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,580
- Expenses
- $21,639
- Assets
- $4,643
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIMBERLEY BRYANT (PRESIDENT)
- DOUG DELONG (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ESTER GAMBRELL (CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD)
- KIMBERLEY BRYANT (PRESIDENT)
- ERICA WATSON (TREASURER)
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
Promote education ad professionalism in
What it reported doing in 2025
Several one day workshops are held offering hands on instructions to educate and update photographers on new techniques, ethics and overall professionalism.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 49%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -72%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 49% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.