Science Council for Global Initiatives
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264258384
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Boonville, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7078952344
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,281
- Expenses
- $141,650
- Assets
- $156,324
- Liabilities
- $2,461
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas Blees (President)
People named in this filing
- Thomas Blees (President)
- Nicole Blees (Secretary)
- Ron Gester (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SCGI is dedicated to informing the public and policymakers about technologies and strategies that can lead to an energy-rich world. SCGI provides a forum for many of the world's prominent scientists, authors, and activists to collaborate and share their knowledge regarding solutions to the world's energy, resource, and environmental problems. That input is used to facilitate information sharing between nations and to encourage cooperation that can lead to accelerated deployment of advanced technologies to markedly improve the condition of both human societies and the environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educate public/policy makers - In February, 2024, SCGI's president, Tom Blees, met again with Congressman Garamendi (D-CA) in Washington to discuss how the ORCA water diversion project could overcome political obstacles. (The ORCA project is elucidated on the SCGI website. Heres a link: tinyurl.com/bde5btcv). He also held further discussions at the Department of Energy to deal with the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) and their reticence to provide plutonium from the START treaties to fuel Terrapowers new fast-neutron nuclear power plant in Wyoming.Blees also met with Ed McGinnis, formerly acting Secretary of Energy and now the CEO of Curio Energy, to discuss how Curio might collaborate with LIST, the laser isotope separation project that Blees originally worked on over a decade ago. LIST (Laser Isotope Separation Technologies) finally succeeded in funding the project to demonstrate and commercialize a fuel enrichment technology that, if successful, will make centrifuge enrichment systems obsolete. By the end of 2024 the company had established a laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and is proceeding apace. Talks on collaboration possibilities are proceeding with Orano and Centrus. Both companies utilize centrifuge enrichment and both plan on major investments in new facilities. Their plans will obviously be impacted if LIST proves to be a viable competitor.
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
- 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.8%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.