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BENS FRIENDS

EIN 81-4548364 CHARLESTON, SC

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Revenue 2024
$260,079
Expenses 2024
$154,074

Program services were 95.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F21
Classification
1200
Street
1426 MEETING STREET RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO OFFER COMMUNITY, HOPE AND A PATH FORWARD FOR THOSE STRUGGLING WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BEN'S FRIENDS IS THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY SUPPORT GROUP OFFERING HOPE, FELLOWSHIP, AND A PATH FORWARD TO PROFESSIONALS WHO STRUGGLE WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION.

  • BEN'S FRIENDS OFFERS A SAFE AND CONSTRUCTIVE HAVEN FOR THOSE GRAPPLING WITH AND MAINTAINING SOBRIETY THOUGH SUPPORT GROUPS, OUTREACH, AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THOSE SEEKING TREATMENT.

    Expenses $147,106

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stephen D Palmer

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michael S Bakst

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $83,654
    From this org
    $83,654
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Scott Crawford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jennifer Dailey

    TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $260,079
    Expenses
    $154,074
    Contributions
    $260,079
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $224,219
    Expenses
    $178,221
    Contributions
    $224,219
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $93,673
    Expenses
    $183,731
    Contributions
    $92,310
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $175,044
    Expenses
    $140,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $147,117

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $162,082
    Expenses
    $99,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,950

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $50,106
    Expenses
    $36,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,567

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Stephen Palmer
Mailing address
90 Alexander StreetCharleston SC 29403

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.