Buist Academy Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 571133439
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8034142436
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,683
- Expenses
- $91,320
- Assets
- $491,038
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Morgan (President)
- Ashley Earl (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Morgan (President)
- Ashley Earl (Vice President)
- Josette Pelzer (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To make buist academy a transformational experience for every student creating a catalyst that will enable other South Carolina public schools to maximize their use of community resources to transform themselves into centers of excellence that foster academic achievement, leadership character development, respect for cultural diversity and the uniqueness of each individual.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support faculty to attend professional development seminarsand training in the international baccalaureate andother programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 74% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.7%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 45.4%; rating input score 45
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.38; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.7% of revenue deployed · 45.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.