The Gcssepm Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751825204
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7138586108
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Geology
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,190
- Expenses
- $8,300
- Assets
- $429,594
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR JOHN R SUTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DR JOHN SNEDDEN (TRUSTEE)
- MR RON WASZCZAK (TRUSTEE)
- DR JENNIFER WADSWORTH (TRUSTEE)
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
Conduct scientific activities in the field of stratigraphy especially as it relates to petroleum geology.
What it reported doing in 2025
Annual conference and publication sales
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 100%; 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: 77.1%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 51.76; rating input score 98; 98th 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: -23.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 23/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.