Gloria Great Basin

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823492055
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Coleville, CA, USA
Phone
4065485200
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
General Science

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$187,383
Expenses
$120,929
Assets
$337,706
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

  • Brian Smithers (Director)
  • Kaleb Goff (Treasurer)
  • Michael Koontz (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

GLORIA Great Basin exists to support research in alpine plant communities. This year, we conducted GLORIA surveys on 10 mountains in the US West while providing fellowships to students to join our survey teams. We brought together teams of academics, state and federal agency personnel, students, and community scientists to teach survey techniques and botany while fostering cross-pollination among members of the survey teams.

What it reported doing in 2025

In July 2024, we conducted GLORIA surveys of 4 peaks in the White Mountains with a survey crew of people from diverse walks of life. We also trained 4 Peak Opportunity Fellows, students from various backgrounds who joined us on these survey teams of 30 participants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 35.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.79; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 67%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 47.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $121K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.