Graduate Employees & Students Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061359246
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2010, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- New Haven, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2036247568
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $273,387
- Expenses
- $226,959
- Assets
- $49,674
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CHRIS MCGOWAN (EXECUTIVE BOARD): $12,769 total reported compensation
- CHARLES DECKER (EXECUTIVE BOARD): $12,430 total reported compensation
- TIF SHEN (EXECUTIVE BOARD (FORMER)): $12,430 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Improved working conditions and economic advantgages for the graduate teaching and research assistants at yale through negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement
What it reported doing in 2017
Improved working conditions and economic advantgages for the graduate teaching and research assistants at yale through negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 39
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.9%; rating input score 58; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 41.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 11 of 19 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $13K · 35 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.