Golden Gate Stem Fair
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822950047
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Novato, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155285400
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fairs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,500
- Expenses
- $1,250
- Assets
- $2,841
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Bob Fabini (BOARD MEMBER)
- HL Alexander Deschamps (Treasurer)
- Jeanne Hale (BOARD MEMBER)
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 golden gate stem fair is an annual event intended to celebrate the excellent research completed by students in the san francisco bay area community. The fair itself is open to the public. We are working to make ggsf not just a competition, but a community event that celebrates the accomplishments of all of the aspiring scientists who submit their work. Form 990, part vi, line 11b - organization's process to review form 990 form 990 reviewed by officers prior to filing form 990, part vi, line 19 - governing documents disclosure explanation governing documents available upon request
What it reported doing in 2024
Stem fair - this year we focused on strengthening the foundation for theorganization and the annual event as a whole. Numerous projects were submittedby students in grades 6-12 from the san francisco bay area.
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: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.3%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 12%; rating input score 12
- 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; 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: 64.3%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.3% of revenue deployed · 12% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $150 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.