Aquinas Institute
Legal name: Aquinas Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263960330
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-PF 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Green Bay, WI, USA
- Phone
- 3073497241
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,281
- Expenses
- $205,454
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
The Aquinas Institute is a research institution whose mission is to research, teach, and publish from the greatest writings in history, with a focus on bringing ancient and medieval scholarship into modern critical dialogue.
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 4 grants totaling $75,892. The stated grant purposes included financial assistance, assistance to ca fire victims, and support for ukraine church, plus 1 other reported purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 37
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 22
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 37; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- 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: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Missing
- 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: Pass
- 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: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 10; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they fund: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 22th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Moderate — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 22/100.