The Beaufort History Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451953140
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Beaufort, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8433793079
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,098
- Expenses
- $117,283
- Assets
- $182,544
- Liabilities
- $5,325
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENDA LITCHFIELD (Vice President)
- AMELIE CROMER (President)
People named in this filing
- ALFRED CHANNELS (Director)
- LEWIS TABB (Secretary)
- DAVID RUSSELL (Director)
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
To preserve, promote and interpret the experiences of our past that influence us now and in the future.
What it reported doing in 2025
Beaufort history museum - operation of a museum located in the arsenal at 713 craven street.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.9%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 38%; rating input score 38
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.9% of revenue deployed · 38% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.