South Carolina Tree Farm Committee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562087360
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8037984170
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,315
- Expenses
- $94,719
- Assets
- $358,475
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- JIM BROWN (TREASURER)
- JANET WATT STEELE (PAST CHAIR)
- TJ LYELL (CHAIR)
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 help woodland owners be effective stewards of the land as they adaptively manage renewable resources, promote environmental, economic and social benefits, and work
What it reported doing in 2024
Education - Provide a broad based education program to give forestowners throughout the State the knowledge and tools theyneed to be confident they are mananging their property responsibly.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 9
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.6%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.78; rating input score 79; 79th 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: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.6% of revenue deployed · 9.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.