South Carolina Association of Student Councils
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570798505
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lexington, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8032402087
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $215,283
- Expenses
- $174,249
- Assets
- $109,854
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PEYTON SHELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AMANDA PINSON (EXECUTIVE DI)
- WESTON COFFINS (HISTORIAN)
- SARA BETH FIELD (PARLIAMENTAR)
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
To develop student leadership, good citizenship and cooperation among the student councils of the state. To serve as an incentive for the organization of more student councils in the state. To cope with problems of common interest to middle, junior high and senior high schools throughout the state and to provide a forum for students to discuss these issues. To assist all student councils in becoming more effective organizations within their school, community, state and nation. To facilitate the eschange of ideas and experiences between state member schools and the national association of student councils (nasc). To provide opportunities for students to practice the democratic process. To provide leadership training for student council members and advisers. To represent the student councils of South Carolina public affairs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide workshops and conferences to members as well as provide a summer leadership camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.1%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 29; 29th 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: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 160 of 160 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $169K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.