Global Surgical and Medical Support Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474251351
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2021
- Location
- Pompano Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 2028540071
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Surgery Specialties
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,704
- Expenses
- $148,452
- Assets
- $1,155,557
- Liabilities
- $119
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AARON EPSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AARON EPSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
- COL ROB LIM (VICE PRESIDE)
- DAVID EPSTEIN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The global surgical and medical support group (gsmsg) is a 501(c)3 non- profit organization dedicated to providing medical relief to communities in conflict zones, austere environments and disaster areas around the world. By enlisting the most elite professionals in the world, gsmsg offers top tier services to those in need through: direct action - medical and surgical care gsmsg medical and surgical team are able to provide the full spectrum of care ranging from front-line medical services and prolonged field care, to primary care check-ups, to advanced neurosurgery. Through gsmsg surge staffing, we are able to man a full field hospital within 72hours with a full compliment of medical and surgical professionals. Responding to the covid19 pandemic gsmsg team members have deployed since the beginning of the covid19 pandemic to sites throughout the us including the nyc ryan larkin field hospital throughout the initial peak wave of the crisis. Additionally gsmsg members helped to staff ic
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2022, two different medical missions were led to ukraine to train ukrainian special forces and provide surgical services to injured ukrainians.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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; 64th 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: -232.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.78; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -117.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -143.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -25.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.