Sudden Cardiac-death Awareness Research
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460997261
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Sycamore, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8157587700
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Heart, Circulatory Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,671
- Expenses
- $110,024
- Assets
- $83,011
- Liabilities
- $1,794
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- PAUL NGUYEN (DIRECTOR)
- RUBINA NGUYEN (DIRECTOR)
- NICK HADJI (DIRECTOR)
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
The purpose of our foundation is to raise awareness about sudden cardiac death to the general population and healthcare providers.
What it reported doing in 2025
S.c.a.r.f. Career guidance program partners with students in high schools and colleges, giving them the unique opportunity to learn, practice, and prepare for their future while helping their community at the same time. Keeping up with s.c.a.r.f's mission to raise awareness and decrease the incidence of sudden cardiac-arrest/death, our interns, upon successful completion of the requirements of the program become lifelong ambassadors of s.c.a.r.f. By partnering with students, s.c.a.r.f. Is laying the foundation to positively impact these students and our community in the coming years. Heavy emphasis is placed upon critical thinking, teamwork and higher education. Students are given knowledge on professionalism, stress control, finances, and how to succeed in the real world. Many of our students have successfully utilized our program and gained admissions to higher education programs, such as medical, dental, law, pharmacy, engineering, public health, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.5%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.7%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.5% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.