RISE Scholastic Achievements Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820770698
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Green Valley, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 2533107807
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,515
- Expenses
- $18,162
- Assets
- $434,448
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Reed Olson (President)
People named in this filing
- Reed Olson (President)
- Carol Bates-Smith (Director)
- Roger Fisher (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RISE Scholastic Achievements, Inc was formed to ensure that eligible students at Casa Vida Nueva Para Nios, A.C. (CVN) in Nogales, Sonora Mexico have a sustainable funding source so they mnay continue education through high school, trade school, technical school, or university.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2024, RISE paid tuition (and uniforms when applicable) to enable eight children to attend high school, and three to attend university (Mexican government provides education through 8th grade only)and paid a quarterly stipend to those children enrolled in university studies. Rise continues to supply the Home with commercial grade, broadband internet necessary for in-home learning/schooling. Note: several of the children have no official birth certificate and are therefore unable to attend school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 2.1%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 7%; rating input score 7
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.5%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 23.92; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 2.1% of revenue deployed · 7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 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: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.