South Porch Artists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874670587
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Summerville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8439702363
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,210
- Expenses
- $37,842
- Assets
- $9,608
- Liabilities
- $19,881
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bradley Erickson (President/Executive Director)
- Victoria Bailey (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Bradley Erickson (President/Executive Director)
- Victoria Bailey (Vice President)
- Nichole Gantshar (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
Cultural enrichment and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
We also host creative showcases. These are a mix of interactive public events including salons, performances and readings. These events provide members of the local community an educational and cultural enrichment opportunity to experience the art and converse directly with the visiting artists and scholars. In 2025, 140 community members participated in these events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.07; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -77.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -48.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.