Achievement Rewards For College Scientis Ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330850655
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Newport Beach, CA, USA
Rating
54
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$211,448
Expenses
$45,727
Assets
$1,806,051
Liabilities
$172,500

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Linda Crans (Vice President)
  • Nan Wu Hultgren (President)
  • Stephanie Beckman (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jennifer Fang (Director)
  • Diana Casey (Secretary)
  • Jackie Rojas (Director)

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

Overview

Mission

The arcs foundation is dedicated to helping meet our country's need for scientists and engineers by providing scholarships to academically outstanding students who are u.s. Citizens attending u.c.- irvine.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Organization each year awards monetary scholarships to graduate students who are seeking advanced degrees in the engineering and sciences fields. The recipients are selected based on applications submitted by them to the UC Irvine Foundation. In the 2024/2025 college school year ARCS awarded dollars of $85,000 and pledged an additional $50,000 for scholarships in the 2024/2025 academic year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 27
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 13.6%; rating input score 14
  • Program expense ratio: 58.1%; rating input score 58
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 78.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 39.5; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 13.6% of revenue deployed · 58.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 14 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 20 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.