Undergraduate Student Association of the State University College at Geneseo Ny
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161279485
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Geneseo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5852455878
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,017,472
- Expenses
- $1,059,968
- Assets
- $732,974
- Liabilities
- $60,440
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LUCAS PASTWIK (PRESIDENT)
- JASON TOLEVSKI (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KATE REBBAN (FORMER DIRECTOR OF SA PROGRAMS): $102,735 total reported compensation
- CHARLES HAZLETT (DIRECTOR OF SA PROGRAMS): $73,405 total reported compensation
- LUCAS PASTWIK (PRESIDENT): $3,929 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 student association (sa) is the one organization at suny geneseo in which every full and part time undergraduate student is a member. Students become members of sa when they pay their mandatory student activity fee each semester. This money, along with income realized from programming, when allocated, supports student organizations, services and program which improve the quality of the extracurricular life at suny geneseo.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supporting student organizations, services, and programs which improve the quality of extracurricular life at suny geneseo. Approximately 7,200 full-time students served during the combined fall and spring semesters.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.4% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $674K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.