Young Scientists of Sc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832063448
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Walterboro, SC, USA
- Phone
- 7035956360
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,006
- Expenses
- $70,293
- Assets
- $70,022
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Carlisle (President)
- Meredith Rynkiewicz (Vice President)
- Amelia Bongiorno (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- James Carlisle (President)
- Linzey Fraser (Secretary)
- Liza Catterton (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
Our Mission is to promote and provide Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math opportunities to school-aged children of the South Carolina Lowcountry to reduce generational poverty.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided one scholarship to one student to attend Kettering University (student is an alumnus of our Elementary, Middle, and High School Programs)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.