Scholarship Opportunities for Success
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311783534
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6144512313
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,692
- Expenses
- $81,555
- Assets
- $558,462
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bethany Kravitz (President)
People named in this filing
- Bethany Kravitz (President)
- Susan Voorhees Murphy (VP Scholarship)
- Clare Anderson (VP Fundraising)
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
Scholarship Opportunities for Success is a totally volunteer organization helping women overcome financial barriers to education by paying for tuition, books, fees, equipment and supplies, transportation and child care expenses.
What it reported doing in 2025
Scholarship Opportunities for Success is an all-volunteer organization which in 24 years has awarded over $1,000,000 to help 220 women. They are given the opportunity to pursue their academic goals, enabling them to obtain jobs that can raise the economic status of their families. Many recipients have overcome abuse, homelessness, addiction and financial hardships and graduate with academic honors.Applicants are carefully screened. They must be at least 18 years old and be US citizens. They must demonstrate financial need and show evidence that they are likely to succeed in achieving their goals. Awards do not exceed $7,500 and are paid directly to the facility providing the needed services. The scholarship funds may be used for tuition at universities, colleges, technology and trade schools, supplies, equipment, books, fees, bus passes and child care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $88.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.85; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 15 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.