Together Sc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 571057398
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8039290399
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $993,073
- Expenses
- $1,013,159
- Assets
- $405,477
- Liabilities
- $303,660
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN RIORDAN (PRESIDENT &)
- MADELEINE S MCGEE (CEO THROUGH)
Highest reported compensation
- MADELEINE S MCGEE (CEO THROUGH): $96,602 total reported compensation
- BENJAMIN BULLOCK (VICE PRESIDE): $82,798 total reported compensation
- KAREN RIORDAN (PRESIDENT &): $40,366 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To unite, strengthen, and advance our state's nonprofit community, so we may enrich the quality of life for all. To: 1. Harness the collective power of those working for the greater good through advocacy and collaboration among nonprofit leaders, foundations, business and governmental partners, associations and academic institutions; 2. Energize charitable nonprofit professionals and volunteers through leadership, education and recruitment of next generation leaders, and; 3. Enhance the future of the nonprofit sector by nurturing public trust, garnering leg islative support and safeguarding the integrity of nonprofit work.
What it reported doing in 2024
Leading together - together sc's 800+ member organizations consist of thought leaders, agents of change, and trusted, vital community advocates from across the state of South Carolina. We seek to cultivate a diverse leadership pipeline and pathway that ensures continuity of excellence on board and staff teams across our network, to expand our value at the local level through strategic partnerships and collaborations, and to foster thought leadership and action on race equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.75; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.9% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $733K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $97K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.