South Carolina Society for Respiratory Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237092114
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Columbia, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8033158288
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Lung Disease
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,491
- Expenses
- $131,332
- Assets
- $109,837
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Selma Watson (President-Elect)
- Terrica Rice (President)
- Amanda Coffey (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Selma Watson (President-Elect)
- Tracy Cook (Treasurer)
- Terrica Rice (President)
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
Primary Exempt purpose is fulfilled annual by the SCSRC through supporting Respiratory Therapists and Respiratory Care students by providing educational events that meet the continuing education needs for state licensed and nationally credentialed respiratory therapists. Network events for awareness and professional development providing at summits, panel discussions, website articles, workshops, hands-on skills training, in-services, and awareness events to promote respiratory health and evidence-based practice. Support national events such as Respiratory Care week. Provides support for respiratory therapist serving at SC HOSA events. Provides scholarships for SC HOSA students and Respiratory students to attend forums and conference nationally and statewide.
What it reported doing in 2025
Increase awareness of the respiratory care profession and support SC respiratory therapists and RTs. Provide opportunities for respiratory therapists, respiratory care students, and BSRT student to receive grants and scholarships to attend state and national conferences and AARC events, such as house of delegates. Provided support for RTs to attend SC HOSA meetings to talk to high school students about the respiratory care profession and what the role RTs play in improving healthcare.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.