St James Foundation of North Carolina
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994148431
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Bolivia, NC, USA
- Phone
- 5402306056
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,763
- Expenses
- $14,225
- Assets
- $208,295
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Geraldine Margin (President)
- Richard Eckman (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Geraldine Margin (President)
- Richard Eckman (Vice President)
- Julie Frazier (Member)
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 Corporation is organized and will be operated exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes within the meaning of 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Subject to the foregoing, the specific purposes and objectives of the Corporation include, but are not limited to, identifying, supporting, and serving the educational needs of the residents in Brunswick County in effort to
What it reported doing in 2025
Identifying, supporting, and serving the educational needs of the residents in Brunswick County in effort to provide better educational opportunities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 70.3%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.9%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.64; rating input score 94; 94th 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: 85.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -119.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37% of revenue deployed · 70.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.