Rev Eulon Brown Sr Memorial Scholarship Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871154473
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5129282550
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $40,078
- Assets
- $39,292
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HELEN GIFFIN (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON GOVAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAROLYN BERRY (TREASURE)
- HELEN GIFFIN (PRESIDENT)
- SHARON GOVAN (VICE 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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educational assistance, primarily to college and university students that are low income.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide educational assistance to primarily low income students. Gifts provided directly to college's and universities directed to students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.