Global Crop Breeding Support Service

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472473215
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
6126055205
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$110,448
Expenses
$96,898
Assets
$62,988
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DAVID HOISINGTON (CHAIR)
  • GARY CORNELIUS (DEPUTY CHAIR)
  • PETER NINNES (SECRETARY/TREASURER)

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

To support and promote the use of advanced crop/plant breeding technologies and knowledge in order to increase agricultural productivity, enhance food security, and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers throughout the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, the gcbss operated seed and crop knowledge africa - scka, a branch of the gcbss. This branch works to accomplish the following:(1) support and promote the use of modern technologies and acquired knowledge to modernise plant breeding and agricultural value chain capacity in africa with a focus on senegal and elsewhere in west africa.(2) promote crop improvement programs that benefit smallholder farmers and commodity value chains in senegal and west africa.(3) support capacity building programs for different value chain actors to encourage their participation in the development and distribution of new, improved and profitable crop varieties in response to clearly identified market demands. The program expenses have been incurred through a grant to scka by cirad for regional coordination, data management and analytics support to the peanut innovation lab (pil).

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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.5%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 68.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 37.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.5% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.