A Myrtle Beach-area charity is preparing for its popular annual festival – even as it remains suspended by the South Carolina Secretary of State (SCSOS).
As the Socastee Heritage Festival’s April 11 date approaches, the non-profit organization behind the event is out of legal compliance, according to the SCSOS, and recovering from “violations of the Foundation’s bylaws and other internal matters,” according to the foundation itself.
On Feb. 18, the Socastee Heritage Foundation maintained it was “in full compliance with all federal and state regulations” as a 501(c) organization. But according to the SCSOS, the charity was suspended on Jan. 2 for failure to pay a fine for a delinquent annual financial report for the June 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024, fiscal year…