The Buck Scholars Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264119873
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7078151945
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,105
- Expenses
- $73,744
- Assets
- $418,142
- Liabilities
- $2,777
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENDA CASTILLO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RONE CANYON (INTERIM PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRENDA CASTILLO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RONE CANYON (INTERIM PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTIAN SHELTON (TREASURER)
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 buck scholars association (bsa) is an independent non-profit organization established in 2008 by the nearly 300 scholarship recipients of the frank h. And eva b. Buck foundation (buck scholars). Bsa's mission is two-fold. First, to foster the personal and professional growth of the buck scholars now spread across the globe, and second to expand educational opportunities for a new generation of extraordinarily promising northern California youth.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fellows program - the buck fellows program is designed to assist talented high school students in northern California attend top colleges around the nation by providing financial resources, support and guidance along their journey to college. The program has helped 50 rising high school sophomores attend universities such as harvard, stanford, yale, columbia, princeton, uc berkeley, west point, among others, by providing each student clsoe to $6,000 in scholarship funds.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -182.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.67; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.