Global Medical Training Gmt
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274111915
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rock Falls, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8156221605
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $796,666
- Expenses
- $636,545
- Assets
- $464,613
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILBUR EUGENE JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LAURA JOHNSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- PATRICIA ANN JOHNSON (SECRETARY)
- TIMOTHY JOHNSON (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Global medical training mission: north american physician, dr. Wil johnson, md created this organization. Dr. Wil transitioned from 28 years of a rural private practice in the USA after deciding to lifetime volunteer his time and medical / teaching skills for the benefit of others. He had deep humanitarian ideals that needed fertile soil to flourish. He also desired to help the impoverished of central america and provide a heart and mind changing experience for trip participants from other cultures. Gmt was founded in 2003 and began trips jan 2004. We are a legally registered non-profit organization in costa rica. We based our organization there and have expanded to serve in nicaragua, panama, mexico, and the dominican republic. Objectives: to provide, as a team, free medical and dental healthcare services, and free medicines to the needy in latin america to teach students basic clinical skills, basic medical / dental knowledge, and the art of medicine, in preparation for and during im
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide humanitarian services in central american countries such as free medical-dental services by organizing multiple medical trips which consist of a group 15 to 40 medical students for a period of one to two weeks. Patients in these countries receive free healthcare while the students gain first hand experience working at the clinics under a physician or trained medical professional for non-clinical services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $637K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.