Students of the World
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710951453
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4156896309
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,714
- Expenses
- $2,512
- Assets
- $3,767
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- COURTNEY IRVING (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- COURTNEY IRVING (Vice President)
- Judy Trabulsi (Board Member)
- Scott Goodwin (Board Member)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Students of the world has been in operation for more than 15 years, dedicated tothe mission of working with emerging creative to tell stories of progress fromaround the world using creative tools such as film, design and photography.
What it reported doing in 2018
We continued the pedal south fiscal sponsorship while the team continued their bike ride down from Alaska to argentina. Along the route, the team of sotw alumni would capture photo and video content that they used upon the completion of their trip in 2016 to create a feature length documentary about their experiences. We also worked with the sotw community and school chapters to cultivate productionopportunities around the country. Most notably, we worked with our chapter at dukeuniversity to support coordinating a screening on campus of the films that theycreated shining a light on progress in their community. We also worked with ouruniversity of Texas chapter to help them host a documentary film festival on theircampus by providing coordination and social media support to drive participation.we worked with the all-american high school film festival to create and sponsor anaward for best documentary in their annual film festival competition. It was anopportunity for founder, courtney spence to present the award on stage, meet thewinners and to give a talk to the high school filmmaker audience about the missionand work of students of the world. We also worked to rebuild and launch the membership area of the sotw website sothat it would be easier to grow and support our community online. This included arefresh of our home page, and building a database on the back end to supportinformation collection.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44%; rating input score 44
- 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: 56%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 59; 59th 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: -100.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2015 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.