Tri-development Center of Aiken County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570669586
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Aiken, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8036428800
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,801,533
- Expenses
- $22,972,000
- Assets
- $14,844,677
- Liabilities
- $6,796,430
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- TIFFANY MILES (EMPLOYEE): $139,143 total reported compensation
- HEATHER WADDELL (EXECUTIVE DI): $129,542 total reported compensation
- KAREN PATTEN (FINANCE DIRE): $87,668 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 provide, promote and coordinate community services in aiken county for individuals with autism, head and spinal cord injuries, and mental retardation, to maximize independence, safeguard and support human rights and dignity, and achieve community inclusion; and to provide education and resources to the public to help in the understanding and prevention of autism, head and spinal cord injuries, and mental retardation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other programs: supervised living - this program consists of clients who live in apartments - staff members provide assistance to these individuals to accomplish their daily living needs. Expenses 136,336 revenues 120,726 job coach expenses 170,746 revenues 144,532 special activities/prevention expenses 115,273 revenues 0 other expenses 655,070 revenues 1,181,652 line 4d totals expenses 1,077,425 revenues 1,446,910
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $7,669.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.8% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $20.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $139K · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.