Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems Dba Cosmos

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680430266
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4158400574
Rating
52
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Engineering and Technology

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,982
Expenses
$27,391
Assets
$49,315

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEBRA MURPHY (President)
  • ALEXANDROS SAVVAIDIS (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • SEAN AHDI (Treasurer)
  • LEONARDO RAMIREZ GUZMAN (Secretary)
  • AYSEGUL ASKAN (Board Members)

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

A California non-profit public corporation founded as a membership organization to work toward improvement in earthquake strongmotion measurements and assist in the dissemination of related data.

What it reported doing in 2025

Serve as consortium to work toward improvement in earthquake strong-motion measurements, solve mutual problems with strong-motion measurement and assist in dissemination of related data.

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
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 37
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48.5%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 19.4%; rating input score 19

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -149.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 50.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48.5% of revenue deployed · 19.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.