Shared City

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934816764
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Mt Pleasant, SC, USA
Phone
8438521759
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$151,382
Expenses
$117,962
Assets
$46,626

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RODNEY FREEMAN (Chairman)
  • CAROLINE HORNE (Secretary)
  • JERE STILLE (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

Shared City equips communities to do good/better through a strategic framework designed to align, engage, and activate all who give, serve, and seek support creating transformative paths to lasting stability for every neighbor in need.

What it reported doing in 2025

Shared City originated the Nonprofit Equipping Pathway in 2024 and continued to significantly develop and expand its programming throughout 2025. The pathway is an ongoing, multi-program continuum for nonprofit founders and emerging leaders in the Greater Charleston region. In 2025, Shared City advanced the pathway through the launch of a free Personal Readiness Assessment (available digitally via SharedCityCHS.org), the release of an initial series of six downloadable Nonprofit EquipGuides, a 1.5-day Nonprofit Learning Lab workshop offered on a scholarship-funded, pay-what-you-can basis, and the delivery of 68 hours of scholarship-funded one-on-one nonprofit leadership coaching. These programs collectively reduce barriers to professional development for capacity-strapped nonprofit leaders and strengthen organizational health across the local charitable ecosystem, with additional programming planned for continued development in future years.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.5%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 66.1%; rating input score 66

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: 22.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 111.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.5% of revenue deployed · 66.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.