Tri-County Play Collaborative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883187434
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Hanahan, SC, USA
Phone
7737501412
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,000
Expenses
$41,666
Assets
$191,578
Liabilities
$177,158

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Adrienne Frazier (Executive Dir.)
  • Crystal Campbell (Trustee)
  • Sherry Gilliam (Trustee)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Tricounty Play Collaborative expands access to arts, culture, and nature for young children, families, and early educators from underserved communities. By connecting early learning experiences with local cultural and natural resources, we nurture curiosity, foster discovery, and bring literacy to life.

What it reported doing in 2024

Tricounty Play Collaborative continued its mission of expanding access to early learning, culture, and community connection for families across the Tri-County region. We hosted three Early Care Community of Practice gatherings, offering child care providers opportunities to reflect, collaborate, and engage in professional development rooted in equity and play-based learning. We held four Play and Read events at local libraries and community hubs, integrating literacy activities, culturally relevant storybooks, and interactive play experiences for young children and their caregivers. To address water safety disparities in underserved communities, we partnered with local organizations to offer Swimmershipsproviding families with young children access to swim instruction and water safety education. Tricounty Play Collaborative also led a Community Asset Mapping initiative designed to explore community interest in enhancing early math learning through local environments, such as parks and walking trails. Additionally, the organization participated in community-wide events, tabling to raise awareness about the benefits of early learning, and sustained a bilingual early care podcast to reach Spanish- and English-speaking families with accessible content on parenting, early childhood education, and community resources.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.7%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.6; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.92; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58.7% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.