Student Enterprise Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
721552240
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2012
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Lincoln, NE, USA
Phone
4024720898
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Youth Development - Business

Reported finances

Revenue
$27,474
Expenses
$26,028
Assets
$16,475

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organizations mission is to inspire and enable young people to develop excellent leadership, teamwork, and communication skills that will be valuable tools in their free enterprise and entrepreneurial career development. The organization's primary purpose is the operation of a coffee shop for which profits go to support student activities and scholarships at the university of Nebraska-lincoln. The entity provides students with the opportunity to run a business.

What it reported doing in 2012

Student Enterprise, Inc. makes distributions to the Nebraska chapter of Students in Free Enterprise ("SIFE"). SIFE is a non-profit student organization at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln dedicated to enable students to make a difference in the world through business solutions. Distributions to SIFE enabled the student organization to fund projects throughout the city of Lincoln, NE, such as printing marketing materials to promote cancer awareness, or to provide means for students to compete in regional, national, and worldwide competitions with SIFE. By being involved with projects and competitions, students have an educational experience for how they can use business to empower others.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.