St Pauls American Legion Post 145

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821982676
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Hollywood, SC, USA
Rating confidence
Limited

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,181
Expenses
$36,019
Assets
$220,970

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • William N Starnes Jr (Commaner)
  • MacArthur Forrest (Vice Commander)
  • Cheri Fyke (Adjutant)

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

Support for Veterans and their families

What it reported doing in 2025

See Schedule O. Support to Veterans and their Families: Refurbish equip and furnish building to serve as Veterans Service Center; support residents of Veteran Victory House; clean and repair Veteran headstones; provide tuition fees deposits and transportation costs to rising seniors from two local high schools to attend Palmetto Girls and Boys State; support Wreaths Across America; and provide emergency food to Veterans; and gifts to needy children at Christmas. Assist Veterans in understanding their rights and benefits and in preparing their requests for benefits to the US Veterans Administration. Attend state Legion Convention Business Meetings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -154%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.13; rating input score 87; 87th 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: 89% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.