Glasser Institute for Choice Theory
Legal name: Glasser Institute for Choice Theory - Us
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800855957
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- Phone
- 5126320464
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,094
- Expenses
- $73,526
- Assets
- $45,181
- Liabilities
- $3,914
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN PATTERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEPHEN TRACY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHARON CARDER-JACKSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRIAN PATTERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEPHEN TRACY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GLORIA CISSE (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To teach the world Choice Theory
What it reported doing in 2024
Conferences & training
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.