South County Museum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050309038
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Narragansett, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4017862442
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,549
- Expenses
- $157,530
- Assets
- $331,313
- Liabilities
- $76,994
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rebecca Kelly (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Rebecca Kelly (Executive Director)
- Emma Manning (Assistant Director)
- Erin Shaw (Associate)
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 south county museum operates a history museum with interactive exhibits accross seven buildings showcasing over 20000 artifacts from rhode islands agricultural marine and textile past the mission is to preserve south countys rich history engaging the public on the heritage of rural life our school of craft demonstrates and teaches quilting looming natural dying spinning in our fiber shed blacksmithing in our blacksmith barn wood working in our carpenter barn and letterpress in our print shop
What it reported doing in 2025
0
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.