Graduate Student Organization of Suny at Stony Brook Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112597353
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6316326515
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $676,820
- Expenses
- $653,809
- Assets
- $394,461
- Liabilities
- $60,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VISHNU SAI KOTHA (PRESIDENT)
- SAI RUTHVIK MADIREDDY (VICE PRESIDENT/INTERIM SPEAKER)
- BINDU BHARGAVA REDDY CHINTAM - (PRESIDENT (FORMER))
Highest reported compensation
- BINDU BHARGAVA REDDY CHINTAM - (PRESIDENT (FORMER)): $4,936 total reported compensation
- ABIHINAV KOORA (TREASURER (CURRENT)): $4,936 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To identify and protect the rights of all graduate students, to improve their quality of life, to serve as a forum for public debate on relevant and timely issues, and to enhance the university through cooperative efforts with other campus groups. Gso is supported primarily by student activity fees.
What it reported doing in 2024
Resource access projects; travel grants for students to attend academic conferences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $474K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.