Saxapahaw Forward Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933192111
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2024
Location
Graham, NC, USA
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,496
Expenses
$86,740
Assets
$20,100

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Lorraine McNamara (Chair)
  • Amy Beth Kessinger (Vice Chair)
  • Susan Eldon (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The purpose of Saxapahaw Forward is to play a vital role in cultivating sustaining and enhancing the unique village identity of Saxapahaw to ensure that the big spirit of our rural community thrives for generations to come. Saxapahaw Forward works towards multiple interconnected goals: COMMUNITY: Nurture a resilient and livable rural community that encourages social interaction cultural expression and a sense of belonging among community members. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: Enhance access to and connections with Saxapahaws landscape and riverscape inviting appreciation and interdependent relationships among residents visitors and our natural environment. SPACES: Cultivate spaces and opportunities for meaningful interchanges between community members businesses visitors and all who care for our village.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community and Neighborhood Development: Living into our purpose of playing a vital role in cultivating sustaining and enhancing our unique village identity community members were invited to participate in the life of the community in a wide variety of ways. Monthly workdays provided an opportunity for relationships to be built and strengthened. At these events volunteers enhanced our local landscape through planting trees and native plants among other things. We also worked with volunteers to add a Welcome to Saxapahaw sign on the main road and create a woodland workspace along our trails where people can gather in nature. In addition we hosted a program called Netwalking - an opportunity to network with neighbors while walking creating a dynamic supportive web of relationships while embracing the simple yet powerful journey of motion. We also hosted an annual community meeting in May to live into our purpose. More than 200 people have been involved in these events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92

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: 0.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 20; 20th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.