Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746059311
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2143631780
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,269
- Expenses
- $246,316
- Assets
- $132,269
- Liabilities
- $7,753
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve M Smith (Vice President)
- Thomas G Pronold (President)
- Donald P Muth Sr (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Matthew Boyce (Director)
- Greg S Alletag (Director)
- John R Stephens (Director)
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 organization was formed to promote, develop, and stimulate interest and knowledge in the field of earth sciences.
What it reported doing in 2025
Monitored and reported on issues that would affect members, including price volatility of oil and gas, supply and demand issues for oil and gas production in the US and in Canada; How increasing production in the US has impacted oil prices worldwide; Issues involved with hydraulic fracturing operations in drilling oil wells; state regulations involving volatile missions and fracture stimulation of wells; increasing seismic activity near hydraulic fracturing and injection disposal well sites; impact of OPEC oil production; water shortages from increased hydraulic fracturing activity; Suggested uses for FRAC waters; Global warming and the environment; Presidential candidates and energy policies; Over supply of world oil; Utility companies limiting carbon emissions and program service accomplishments: Switching to natural gas or renewable energy sources; Bureau of Land Management's authority over hydraulic fracturing on federal lands; Surface ozone pollution; Violence in the Midde East and the impact on oil prices; and prepared and planned for Convention to be held at a future date.
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
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -62.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $214K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.