Natural Science Endowment Fund Bradford
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 556094364
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8042737445
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Physical & Earth Sciences,
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,604
- Expenses
- $69,288
- Assets
- $1,240,678
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Highest reported compensation
- TRUIST BANK (TRUSTEE): $7,066 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide funds for the university of charleston's bert and harriet bradford chair of natural science for the pursuit of strengthening the university curriculum and instruction in the field of natural science, and other related fields.
What it reported doing in 2025
To pay the salary and other necessary expenses of the bert and harriet bradford professors thereby enabling them to effectively teach the natural sciences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 95% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.91; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.