South Dakota Scholarship Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
912198199
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sioux Falls, SD, USA
Phone
7124703862
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fairs

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,807
Expenses
$138,743
Assets
$100,063
Liabilities
$18,689

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SEPTEMBER KIRBY (PRESIDENT)
  • CECELIA WOODRING (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CAROL NESBIT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • SEPTEMBER KIRBY (PRESIDENT)
  • CECELIA WOODRING (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LINDA SOYLAND (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Scholarship opportunity for young women

What it reported doing in 2025

The foundation sponsors the miss sd scholarship pagentfor young women which gives them the opportunity forscholarships and personal growth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 40
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.3%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 34

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -26.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.3% of revenue deployed · 34.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.