Archbridge Institute
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to lift barriers to human flourishing.
What it reported doing in 2024
Economic mobility research series: the archbridge institute focuses its multidisciplinary academic and policy research on key structural economic and institutional indicators like the rule of law, entrepreneurship, and social capital as well as other indicators that may be outside the field of traditional economics but are closely linked to economic mobility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474252296
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Public relationship transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.16; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 6 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2016 to 2024
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link