Houston Geological Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746056576
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7134639476
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $521,606
- Expenses
- $471,368
- Assets
- $979,813
- Liabilities
- $10,452
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA WALKER (PRESIDENT)
- BRYAN GUZMAN (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- CAROLINE WACHTMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREA PEOPLES (EXECUTIVE OFFICE DIRECTOR): $85,245 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The houston geological society is a professional society for petroleum, energy and environmental geoscientists. The houston geological society supports continuing education, networking, outreach to students, student scholarships and young professional activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through its publication efforts, the society has rendered a service to its members, the geological profession, and occasionally to the entire community with books of general interest. The publication, "houston area environmental geology: surface faulting, ground subsidence, hazard liability," is a significant contribution to both the geological and lay communities. Four important volumes on the geology of deltas, that favored habitat for petroleum accumulation, have been published. Two of these, "deltas-models for exploration and "deltas in their geologic framework" have been reprinted due to demand. The 22nd edition of "directory of oil company name changes" was printed in 2012. Two recent publications, exploration and exploitation of coastal salt basin diapiric structures in the lower pliocene through eocene trends: geology and techniques", a joint effort with the new orleans geological society, and "productive low resistivity well logs of the offshore gulf of mexico" are valuable additions to the geological literature.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 87
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 9.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 14 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.