Royal Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141927321
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- North Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8437440856
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,136
- Expenses
- $129,557
- Assets
- $108,519
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA CHAPMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- STACEY SINGLETARY (TREASURER)
- LINDA CHAPMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JEFFREY FIELDING (BOARD MEMBER DIRECTOR)
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
The royal foundation's primary purpose is to provide and/or support programs that improve the lives of citizens in the tri-county area of South Carolina (charleston, dorchester, and berkeley counties) in the areas of education, health and wellness, economics, and project renewal (outreach dedicated to rebuilding lives of persons who have been convicted of a crime).
What it reported doing in 2025
Empowerment programs provide programs that assist our community members to ensure success for students through positive teen-adult relationships and exposure to stem related activities, prepare adults with educational tools that will enable them to achieve their life's goals and coach community members through job readiness/career development. Program services include: 1) job readiness/career development 2) provide mentoring to male 5th - 12th graders through our "i am" male mentoring program; students meet monthly with the larger group of mentees/mentors either through a planned topical session, community service experience, or excursion. 3) free ged preparation services 4) organized the royal robots team to learn and implement the core values of the logo robotics program. 5) founding member of nsbe jr. Chapter (national society of black engineers) with other community organizations to provide another opportunity for hands-on stem related activities with students 3rd - 8th grades.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 56
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: -19.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.6% of revenue deployed · 55.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.