Osteo Science Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271424497
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2159772877
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,181,463
- Expenses
- $1,182,103
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Grantmaking Foundations
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 17 grants totaling $220,973. The stated grant purposes included grant for travel study or similar purpose progra, grant for travel studyor similar purpose progr, and grant for travel studyor similar purpose progra.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The foundation carried out 81% of its reported charitable disbursements directly.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 19
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 5
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 18.6%; rating input score 19; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 2.3; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 5th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 30 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 5/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 2 of 19 not reported.