Sceptre
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721494963
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,877
- Expenses
- $101,877
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Donald R Hunter (Director Administrator)
- Brenda Neff (Office Manager)
- Margie Smith (Administrative Support)
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 strengthen familial relationships including marital parental and spousal involvement and family issues such as education employment decision making substance abuse and juvenile delinquency prevention. The organization provides free social services to at-risk families and community members. Services include counseling tutoring and workforce development.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Sceptre Foundation is committed to creating a supportive judgment-free and natural environment for children youth and families where they are valued treated with dignity and given opportunities to realize their full potential. Sceptre and its partners are responding to the urgent need to support youth who are faced with challenges including sexual behaviors poverty social messages and pressure to engage in risky behaviors. Raising sexually healthy children requires a combination of strong relationships open communication and clear messages regarding values and expectations between parent and children. Consequently the methods used to respond to these challenges include positive youth development and behavioral interventions and suppression. Multiple stakeholders throughout the city are working actively together to engage youth and families positively and to prevent and address impulsive and risky sexual behaviors. The program serves 45 students 10 -16 each year olds.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.