Southwest Ga Youth Science & Techno

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
582150635
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Bainbridge, GA, USA
Phone
2292483933
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$77,235
Expenses
$102,841
Assets
$98,641
Liabilities
$18,457

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • TAMMY NOWELL (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • MARVALYN CARROLL (CFO)
  • ADAM STARR (CHAIRMAN)

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 provide science, techonology, engineering, math training (s.t.e.m) to students in schools in the following counties: decatur, miller, calhoun, grady, baker, early, seminole, mithcell and thomas. School systems in these counties pay a membership fee for the center to provide training throughout the school system. The center also participates in teacher professional development and programs and activities designated as "statewide" by the gystc executive director as well as some regional professional development. Additional programs are provided to students at various times during the year including the summer break. These programs include s.t.em. Workshops, family science nights, center filed trips, saturday science programs and s.t.e.m. Summer camps.

What it reported doing in 2025

The center accomplishes its exempt purpose through additional s.t.e.m. Programs which supplement those taught in the students' classrooms.programs are taught in school classrooms as well as at the center property which is located on the bainbridge campus of abraham baldwin agricultural college/southern regional technical college. The center accomplishes the delivery of these programs through the efforts of the center's executive director who is assisted by contract labor when required. The center's summer camp program AIDS the students who attend by keeping their skill sharp during the school break. The center offered stem summer camp, saturday science, gear up field trips and other activities during the year. The center also provides teacher professional development training.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 62% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th 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: -33.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $101K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.