Gwinnett Student Leadership Team Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320138163
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Suwanee, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7708223219
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,470
- Expenses
- $50,144
- Assets
- $12,203
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- MEAGAN CASTILLO (TREASURER)
- SCOTT DUNCAN (SECRETARY)
- KEVIN CARMICHAEL (CHAIR)
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
To identify and develop young leaders within the gwinnett community who have demonstrated leadership skills, an emerging civic sense and a willingness to serve their schools and community. To provide students an opportunity to develop and enhance their leadership skills and to acquaint student leaders with important community issues and challenges and to provide opportunities for students to interact with business and civic leaders.
What it reported doing in 2025
Monthly learning sessions provide ongoing leadership development through focused, interactive sessions that build skills in communication, teamwork, organizational culture, and strategic planning. Bring together student leaders from across gwinnett county to collaborate, reflect on school-based leadership work, and apply learning directly to their campuses. Leadership summit a countywide gathering of approximately 9001,000 student leaders, principals, and assistant principals featuring keynote speakers, breakout workshops, and leadership development experiences. Includes dedicated school team planning time where students and advisors align on goals, strengthen leadership capacity, and design action steps for their schools. Summer retreat intensive leadership experience focused on team building, personal growth, and strengthening relationships among gslt members before the school year begins. Provides opportunities for community service, while also guiding students in setting individual and team goals for the upcoming year to align leadership work across schools. Orientation and graduation orientation serves as an induction ceremony that welcomes and celebrates new gslt members while introducing them to the mission, expectations, and community of the organization. Graduation honors senior members for their leadership and service while symbolically passing the torch to junior members as they prepare to step into expanded leadership roles. Seventy-one gwinnett county high school seniors participated in 2025. Participants continue to refined the skills they have built throughout the program while stepping into mentorship roles for younger cohorts. Seniors support team discussions, model professionalism and sustain a strong leadership within gslt. Seventy-four high school juniors are prepared to take on leadership and mentorship roles in the upcoming y
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.