Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 756035917
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2147682500
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,353
- Expenses
- $150,136
- Assets
- $81,164
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRED OLNESS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KEN BERRY (SECRETARY)
- ANDREW MILBURN (TREASURER)
- FRED OLNESS (PRESIDENT)
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
The primary exempt purpose of the dallas regional science and engineering fair (drsef) is to focus attention on the scientific experience in Texas education agency region 10 schools and to stimulate interest in scientific investigation beyond that covered in the classroom through service programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Science fair workshop: to facilitate setting up of school science fair competitions, the drsef mails key literature to regional schools, organizes a regional science fair workshop for about 70 teachers, and provides ongoing information support via phone, email, and the drsef website dallassciencefair.org every fall. Judge recruiting: year round the drsef liases with local area businesses, educational and professional organizations to recruit around 500 judges for the science fair competition. A database of about 700 judges is maintained. Mentoring: drsef assists in matching undergraduate student volunteers at local universities with school students requesting mentoring for their projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th 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: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $145K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.