Gunaa Metropolitan Dfw Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823783873
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Arlington, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9728142175
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alumni Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,598
- Expenses
- $27,484
- Assets
- $15,010
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cathy Conwright (President)
- Franklin Terry (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Cathy Conwright (President)
- Franklin Terry (Vice President)
- Lisa Johnson (Recording 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Chapter's primary purpose is to support academic merit, as well as financial need students, to attend Grambling State University by actively recruiting and providing support in the form of scholarships, book grants and donations in the Metropolitan DFW and surrounding area. Our purpose was achieved this year by providing multiple scholarships and providing recruiting services at more than 20 area High Schools. The organization determines who receive scholarships by requesting completed applications from High School Seniors with applicable GPA and returning GSU students as well including request for book grants and special needs. Upon completion of the application requirements a panel of committee members verify the information and select students by utilizing a point system. Monies are issued directly to the University in the student's name.
What it reported doing in 2025
Recruitment activities for approximately 600 students. Three Scholarships given as follows, Layla Jackson $1,500 Doris Robinson Scholar, $1,000 Kaiden Drain Returning Student Scholarship, $1,000 Markeira Terrell $1,000 Incoming Freshman Scholarship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.2%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.2% of revenue deployed · 12.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.