Tin City Masonic Charities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923429863
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Hill City, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6054999259
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,893
- Expenses
- $18,843
- Assets
- $27,099
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN KNAPP (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN KNAPP (PRESIDENT)
- KADE MCVEY (VICE PRESIDE)
- HAROLD IRELAND (SECRETARY/TR)
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
Tin city masonic charities is organized to promote, encourage, and assist in the development, refinement, expansion, continuance, promulgate, support, and to provide financial assistance for the public educational, charitable, and philanthropic activities of tin city lodge a.f. & a.m. Of South Dakota, including but not limited to the advancement of education and charitable works.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tin city masonic charities managed several events throughout the year to suppport the hill city community, including the veterans and first responders dinner and polar bear chili cook-off. In addition, tin city masonic charities volunteered at the youth and family kids fair, delta dental mobile program, and the veterans recognition program at hill city schools. Four scholarships of 2,000 each were awarded in may 2025 to graduates of hill city high school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 88% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.9%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 57; 57th 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: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -61% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.9% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.