Yancey Sheriff's Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331997017
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Burnsville, NC, USA
Phone
8286822124
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,370
Expenses
$44,275
Assets
$24,095
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHANE HILLIARD (PRESIDENT/DI)

People named in this filing

  • KRISTY BRYANT (DIRECTOR)
  • HEATHER COX (SECRETARY/TR)
  • SHANE HILLIARD (PRESIDENT/DI)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Yancey sheriff's foundation is to support the efforts, activities, and initiatives of law enforcement in yancey county, North Carolina, in service to its citizens in connection with recovery efforts from natural disasters; community outreach programs that foster positive relationships between law enforcement and its citizens, especially needy children; support of law enforcement personnel that have experienced a natural disaster or other hardship; and to assist in professional development opportunities and specialized traning for law enforcement personnel

What it reported doing in 2025

Yancey sheriff's foundation is to support the efforts, activities, and initiatives of law enforcement in yancey county, North Carolina, in service to its citizens, especially in connection with recovery efforts from hurricane helene and other natural disasters; to support community outreach programs that foster positive encounters and relationships between law enforcement and the citizens of yancey county, North Carolina, especially needy or at-risk children, youth, and elderly; support the well-being of law enforcement officers in yancey county, North Carolina, and their famililes, including, but not limited to, recovery from natural disaster or other hardships, professional development opportunities, and specialized traing programs; and to solicit and receive contributions from the public and others, and, to manage, operate and administer, a fund or funds of property, real or personal; tangible and intangible, from private and public sources, to provide financial ability to accomplish the purposes for which the corporation is organized.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.8%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

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

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.