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SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION

EIN 57-0967350 COLUMBIA, SC

Revenue 2023
$5,859,527
Expenses 2023
$5,788,391

Program services were 97.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
915 BULL ST OSBORNE ADMIN BLDG 202

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kester Freeman

    Board Chair, Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $24,000
    From this org
    $24,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bhavna Vasudeva

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bob Quinn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brenda Thames

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Black

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dick Jones

    USC Board of Trustee Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Caskey

    Education Foundation President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julius Fridriksson

    USC VP for Research, nonvoting SCRF

    Total calculated
    $492,935
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $463,235
    Other
    $29,700
    Hours/week
    1 + 36.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $352,235 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $111,000 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,700 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $492,935 related

  • Michael Amiridis

    USC President, nonvoting SCRF

    Total calculated
    $404,026
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $318,745
    Other
    $85,281
    Hours/week
    1 + 36.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $318,745 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $85,281 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $404,026 related

  • Stephen Cutler

    USC Dean, College of Pharmacy

    Total calculated
    $487,462
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $457,762
    Other
    $29,700
    Hours/week
    1 + 36.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $457,762 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,700 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $487,462 related

  • WILLIAM KIRKLAND

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (THROUGH February 2024)

    Total calculated
    $322,478
    From this org
    $16,124
    From related orgs
    $306,354
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 35.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $16,124 + $306,354 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $16,124 + $306,354 related

  • Kelly Epting

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $266,978
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $227,331
    Other
    $39,647
    Hours/week
    5.6 + 31.9 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $227,331 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $39,647 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $266,978 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,859,527
    Expenses
    $5,788,391
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,776,984
    Expenses
    $5,721,027
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.