Scale Stg

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992182467
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
St George, UT, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,009
Expenses
$11,655
Assets
$4,340

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Brad Plothow (President)
  • Brad Buhanan (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Brad Plothow (President)
  • Brad Buhanan (Vice President)
  • Peter Fuller (Secretary)

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

To grow a prosperous and sustainable entrepreneurial community in Southern Utah whose members build scalable companies with customers and capital from all over the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

Scale STG advanced its mission to grow a prosperous and sustainable entrepreneurial community in Southern Utah by providing monthly networking opportunities and support services to local entrepreneurs and startups. The organization facilitated connections between Southern Utah entrepreneurs and customers and capital sources from broader markets by hosting a pitch competition working with the local university and helping members build scalable companies with regional and national reach. Through educational programs mentorship initiatives and community-building activities Scale STG strengthened the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern Utah hosting 14 events with 1,000 attendees supporting economic development and business growth in the region.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 26; 26th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -30.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.