Symposia on Environmental Biogeochemistry Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510223079
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Rapid City, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6053945163
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $582
- Expenses
- $1,488
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Symposia on Environmental Biogeochemistry Inc is a nonprofit. Location: Rapid City, SD. EIN 510223079.
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 4 grants totaling $682. The stated grant purposes included student travel support to attend iseb conference in dublin ireland oct. 2025., student travel support to attend iseb conference in dublin ireland oct. 2025, and student travel support for iseb conference in dublin ireland oct. 2025, plus 1 other reported purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 81% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filing identifies who received its grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes to charitable grants and a relatively small share of spending goes to grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 32
- Cost Efficiency: 46
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 99
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 32; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 45.8%; rating input score 46; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 79.91; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 31.5% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 99th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Grant Deployment: Grant deployment ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Grants to individuals not reported.