Global Portal Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
884091317
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Dover, DE, USA
Phone
7346747824
Rating
53
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$14,177
Expenses
$12,440
Assets
$1,854
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • LUCY XU (TREASURER)
  • LIOR TRAU (DIRECTOR)
  • NICOLAS PICAT (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To bring the interactions between people, native pollinators, indigenous communities, and environment to the broader public interest publications, symposiums, and reports, to propose appropriate solutions for conservation and climate change.

What it reported doing in 2025

Settling hives in the praa repblica, so paulo school (june 2, 2025): in partnership with the ministry of education of brazil, the brazilian association of beekeepers (apacame), and the meliponrio of so paulo, gpi installed the first nest of native stingless bees in a school in the urban center of the centro histrico district of so paulo, to create a bridge between the americas and asia facing the same challenges that no region can face alone, reinforcing the existing cooperation, and lead the capacitation and empowerment the next generation of environmental leaders. Ny tech week 2025 (june 5, 2025): in this official event of the andreessen horowitz New York tech week 2025, for world environment day, gpi hosted an event on the theme of "polli-tech", uncovering the world advances in the vital field of pollination and its application across sectors, from cosmetics like chanel's use case to world food security. Speakers included the former executive of goldman sachs india, one of the top 2% of the world's top scientists from the chinese academy of agricultural sciences affiliated with the ministry of agriculture and rural affairs, and the technical director of the embrapa research corporation affiliated with the brazilian ministry of agriculture, leading to pioneering regeneration projects between the south of brazil and the himalayas, and a roadmap on a new silk corridor model.la tech week 2025 (october 17, 2025): for the international day of the intangible cultural heritage and the andreessen horowitz los angeles tech week 2025, gpi hosted an event broadcasted to los angeles from the oldest meteorological tower in the world in athens. The event highlighted the theme of digital ecology and the perennial solutions from millenary societies between the hellenic republic and the amazon basin, highlighting how to optimize pre-existing solutions for scaling the longevity of resources rather than their disappearance, as regularly witnessed from the disasters the west coast and greece, amongst many other regions. Coop 1 (november 21, 2025): in conjunction with the united nations cop 30 conference in the brazilian amazon and in partnership with the greece foundation, gpi hosted a first-of-its-kind "diasporic dialogue" reinforcing existing alternatives and frameworks that can be applied to reinforce and elevate the exchanges across cultures and continents, under the umbrella of the millenary hellenic, and more generally the mediterranean, diaspora.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 16
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.7%; rating input score 12
  • Program expense ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 13
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 12; 12th 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 55.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.7% of revenue deployed · 13.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.