Spine Group of Texas Research Found
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202042989
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2010–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2023
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2815603742
- Rating
- 15
- Verdict
- AVOID
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nerve, Muscle, Bone Diseases Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Nerve, Muscle, Bone Diseases Research
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this foundation funds its work.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
The verdict
AVOID - The filing clearly reports transactions involving insiders. A relatively small share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing does not identify all grant recipients.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 0
- Cost Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency: 0
- Compliance: 76
- Endowment Health: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: Limited
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Scored; rating input score 0
Compliance
- Foundation activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Missing
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
- Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 4; rating input score 57
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Payout: At most 0% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: Filed investments detail
- Consistency: 4 of 7 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2023
- 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 — Grant Deployment: Grant deployment ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency: Grant recipient disclosure scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Assets equal liabilities and net assets did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Balance sheet eoy total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: The filing reports $0 in revenue and $0 in expenses.