Game Audio Network Guild
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680490553
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3608865073
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $139,811
- Expenses
- $123,787
- Assets
- $75,484
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN SCHMIDT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRIAN SCHMIDT (PRESIDENT)
- JASON HAYE (VICE PRESIDE)
- SAVINA CIARAMELLA (EXECUTIVE DI)
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 advancement of interactive audio and the community surrounding it by providing information, instruction, resources, guidance, and enlightenment to members, content providers, and listeners worldwide.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our excellent highly interactive web site and our g.a.n.g awards program are two of the primary means that we have used to unify the members of the interactive audio community under one banner. We have been able to provide a representative voice for members, evangelizing the common interests of the group to the broader entertainment community. We have created networking opportunities for members to facilitate learning from others and the development of new contacts. The g.a.n.g awards program provides a platform for the recognition of excellence in interative audio through the annual g.a.n.g awards process and awards show. The education and mentorship program provides a mechanism for qualifying students to receive mentoring and industry event passes through the g.a.n.g. Scholar's program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.2%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 21%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.2% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.