TESS of North Carolina Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261598518
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Mount Olive, NC, USA
Phone
9192237970
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$54,141
Expenses
$50,257
Assets
$205,222

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HOWARD CALHOUN (PRESIDENT)
  • PAULA FLEMING (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MARILYN K BRIMMAGE (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • HOWARD CALHOUN (PRESIDENT)
  • PAULA FLEMING (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MARILYN K BRIMMAGE (Executive 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To prepare and support academically successful at-risk students with extra ordinary challenges for entry into higher education. Tess solicits donations from corporations and individuals; exempt status allows donors a tax deduction for their charitable contributions. Tess applies for government and private grants that are earmarked for youth education. These funds are to be applied by tess to prepare and support at-risk students for entry and a successful career in college. All funds are collected to our purpose. No funds are held for private use.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024 tess offered (1) education savings account scholarships to youth. Education savings accounts (esa) scholarships are in the amount of $1000 or more to at-risk students that are academically successful (a or ab honor roll with a or b in each subject) despite extra-ordinary economic, emotional, personal, or physical challenges. The scholarships are held in trust by tess until graduation from high school. Once the student enters an institution of higher education, the scholarship and interst may be applied to tuition or education related expenses. (2) behavior counseling. Tess students that experience behavior problems at home or school may be required to attend behavior counseling sessions with mental health professionals, mr. Calhoun or ms. Fleming. As tess grows, other services will include academic counseling, behavior management, leadership development, life skills and business skill development/ enterpremeurship.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.08; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.