The Gilbert Brownstone Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134103052
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2010–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2016
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2124855500
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Corporate Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $343,277
- Expenses
- $234,410
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Corporate Foundations
What it reported funding in 2016
The foundation reported 11 grants totaling $192,507. The stated grant purposes included to support the work of carlos estevez. pursuant to the scholarship procedure under section 4945(g) approved by the irs in letter dated 10/4/2000., charitable, and to support the work of cuban artist humberto diaz perez who specializes in ceramics and graphic design. pursuant to the scholarship procedure under section 4945(g) approved by the irs in letter dated 10/4/2000., plus 7 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 87% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 82
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 3
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- 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
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: 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: 8; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0.64; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 3th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 3/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 2 of 19 not reported.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.