Geobook Studio Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883480071
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Whately, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4133208047
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,022
- Expenses
- $67,913
- Assets
- $61,082
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wendy Curtis (President and Treasurer)
- Sheila Thorn (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Wendy Curtis (President and Treasurer)
- Sheila Thorn (Vice President)
- Paul Tanner (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 GeoBook Studio Inc. is: to present complex information using graphics as well as text to facilitate the efficient understanding of ideas.
What it reported doing in 2025
GeoBook Studio Inc. (GBS Inc.)'s primary program service is the production of print and digital books. Through this service, GBS Inc. seeks to improve understandings of the broad academic discipline of Big History and connected disciplines such as geology, anthropology, history, and science among students and the general population. In 2025, GBS Inc. sold 21 copies of its existing print books. Most of GBS Inc's efforts in 2025 focused on the development of its new book, "Big History of Martha's Vineyard," which will be the subject of increased promotional efforts and wider distribution. These efforts included extensive research, revisions, and direct work with experts in Martha's Vineyard's history. A preliminary digital version of "Big History of Martha's Vineyard" was released through Apple Books in August 2025 and sold its first copy. "Big History of Martha's Vineyard" is scheduled for release in print and expanded digital release in 2026.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
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: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 45; 45th 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: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -71.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.