South Carolina Dental Care Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562032690
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Columbia, SC, USA
Phone
8037502277
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,871
Expenses
$106,388
Assets
$517,552
Liabilities
$3,580

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Brooke Bode (Board Member)
  • Ed Eckert (Board Member)
  • Carol Baker (Board Member)

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

Awarding scholarships to future dental professionals

What it reported doing in 2025

The SCDA Foundation Board through generous donations by some of our members, memorials, Silent Auction fundraisers, and sponsorships by supporting organizations is able to fund many scholarships of future dental health professionals. In 2023, the SCDA Foundation Board donated 34 scholarships to Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC ) Dental Students. Our South Carolina CODA-Accredited Technical Schools nominated 4 Dental Assisting and 5 Hygiene students which were awarded the Mary Clary Memorial Awards, an award named for Mrs. Mary Clary, the long-term executive director of the SCDA, because of her dedication to dentistry and her granddaughter is a hygienist.The SCDA Foundation Board also awarded 4 Dental Assisting and 4 Hygiene CODA-Accredited South Carolina Technical Schools Auxiliary Scholarships to student's based on financial need and academic performance and the Committed Hygiene Award is also a need base awards which 2 students were nominated and awarded this year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -74.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.86; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.