Great Adventures Through Education

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942944135
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4156652868
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$174,125
Expenses
$277,498
Assets
$343,727

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • REBECCA CHERNY (President)

People named in this filing

  • REBECCA CHERNY (President)
  • GISELA HERZKA (Treasurer)
  • LORI WILLIAMS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educational enrichment

What it reported doing in 2024

Grant funding: grants were made in conjunction with the organization's wind down process. The recipient organizations were selected based on the criteria established by the California attorney general's office, registry of charitable trusts.

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 68% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -59.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $225K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.