Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562484474
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9518273794
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,788
- Expenses
- $6,019
- Assets
- $154,682
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- FRANK GOMEZ (President)
- WINNY DONG (President-Elect)
People named in this filing
- JACK EICHLER (Board Member)
- FRANK GOMEZ (President)
- WINNY DONG (President-Elect)
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
Southern California conferences for undergraduate research is dedicated to promoting the practices and ideals of undergraduate research and encourages excellence in undergraduate achievement, partnering annually with a southern California college or university to host a one-day multi-disciplinary conference for the presentation of the best undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative work from regional, national, and international college and university students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual conference hosted by a southern California college or university, drawing over 800 participants from more than 60 academic institutions. Conference provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the best research, scholarship, and creative work of undergraduates.
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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.5%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 76.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 25.7; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.5% of revenue deployed · 2.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $137 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.