Uda Star Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472172639
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- St Simons Island, GA, USA
- Phone
- 9122651020
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $167,516
- Expenses
- $25,200
- Assets
- $154,642
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- GARY BURNETT (INCORPORATOR)
- LINDA PINION (INCORPORATOR)
- PAUL TOLLE (INCORPORATOR)
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
To provide students with tools that will help them accelerate their education
What it reported doing in 2025
Read across america: broaden and enrich children's basic love of reading and encouraging them to read more by providing paperback books for children to take home and own as their own.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.5%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 48.4%; rating input score 48
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: 85%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.14; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.5% of revenue deployed · 48.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.