GBrains Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823673739
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2022
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Cambridge, MA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,500
Expenses
$4,585
Assets
$1,592
Liabilities
$31,656

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Edward J Samp (President)

People named in this filing

  • Edward J Samp (President)
  • Kathleen Walsh Samp (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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

GBrains is an association of alumni from Harvard Business School HBS. Its mission is to connect HBS alums looking for help with other HBS alums willing to help. Its focus is helping is helping members to network. GBrains is a registered n0n-profit corporation in Massachusetts. There is no cost for membership. The only requirement to join is that the person be an HBS alum. Revenue comes from members who submit a situation that results in an equity investment where the member pays a small fee after a successful equity raise.

What it reported doing in 2022

Multiple alums have benefited from networking contacts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -205.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 19.88; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.