GME Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270183963
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4082747994
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,856
- Expenses
- $58,286
- Assets
- $96,351
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ken Meme (President)
People named in this filing
- Kristina Comerer (Treasurer)
- Ken Meme (President)
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
GME Foundation grants scholarships to university students studying surveying/engineering.The organization awards competitive tuition scholarships to eligible students based on merit and/or financial need through an independent selection committee in accordance with established written criteria.
What it reported doing in 2025
GME Foundation grants scholarships to university students studying surveying/engineering.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 69.1%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.2%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42% of revenue deployed · 69.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.