The Gog Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030466352
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Edgewater, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4107217126
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,424,680
- Expenses
- $82,222,187
- Assets
- $171,347,628
- Liabilities
- $57,925,938
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS J HERZOG MD (PRESIDENT)
- LARRY J COPELAND MD (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT S MANNEL MD (SR. VICE PRESIDENT)
- CAROL AGHAJANIAN MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT L COLEMAN MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRADLEY J MONK MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY SHARP (CFO): $384,772 total reported compensation
- LAURA L REESE (ED, OPERATIONS): $360,880 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL S POWERS (GENERAL COUNSEL): $355,587 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The gog foundation, inc. (gog foundation) is a nonprofit organization with the purpose of promoting excellence in the quality and integrity of clinical and basic scientific research in the field of gynecologic malignancies, including cancers that arise from the ovaries, uterus, cervix, vagina, and vulva. Our institutions and investigators are essential contributors to advancements in treatment regimens, surgical procedures, quality of life analyses, and prevention knowledge. The results of gog foundation clinical trials have influenced the standard of care for numerous malignant gynecologic neoplasms. The mission of the gog foundation is to conduct clinical and translational research that positively impacts women through the prevention and treatment of gynecologic malignancies. The vision of the gog foundation is to be the premier collaborative network for transformative research in gynecologic malignancies.
What it reported doing in 2025
The foundation is committed to maintaining the highest standards in clinical trials development, execution, analysis and distribution of results. Continuous evaluation of our processes is utilized in order to constantly improve the quality of patient care. In 2025 the gog foundation, inc. Conducted clinical trials through our 300 plus institutions. These expenses included protocol development, regulatory affairs, meetings to review trial data, trial development through committee functions and other indirect related expenses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: $45.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 35.3%; rating input score 35; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 17 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $385K · 30 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.1M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 35/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.