Cornerstone Group Consultants
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923791893
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8053902197
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Management & Technical Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,542
- Expenses
- $71,520
- Assets
- $8,597
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christina Miller (CEO, President of Board)
People named in this filing
- Christina Miller (CEO, President of Board)
- Donna Johnson (Board Treasurer)
- Karen Studer (Board Secretary)
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 purpose of Cornerstone Group Consultants (CGC) is to help other non-profits and charity organizations in their work. The founding members, which include the directors, have years of experience and volunteer service of working with and helping to manage other non-profits. They also have experience with writing grants and following through with deliverables. Thus, the main activities of CGC will be to continue such work, i.e., management and support of non-profits and their programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Through the funding received, Cornerstone Group Consultants has provided critical support to nonprofit and academic institutions in the areas of teaching, mentorship, grant writing, research development, and knowledge sharing. Our work has included: assisting Loma Linda University with grant applications, research oversight, scholarly presentations, and sustainability planning; supporting the University of Mississippi Medical Center with long-term curriculum development and resident mentoring; collaborating with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine to develop implementation reports, design research studies, and apply for grant funding, maintain current funding relationships; and partnering with CARE Global to create sustainability training programs for global health workers. These efforts have strengthened the capacity and impact of organizations working in public health, education, and research.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -43.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 107.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.