Center for Institutional Courage Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844575602
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2532374867
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,298
Expenses
$77,951
Assets
$125,889

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jennifer Freyd (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jennifer Freyd (President)
  • Laura S Brown (Treasurer)
  • Lisa Verhovek (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Center for Institutional Courage is a nonprofit institution dedicated to scientific research, wide-reaching education, and data-driven action promoting institutional courage in addressing the negative effects of institutional betrayal stemming from sexual harassment and assault, wrongful terminations, and other failures of our institutions.

What it reported doing in 2025

Outreach and education to raise the awareness of the critical importance of institutional courage in addressing the negative effects of institutional betrayal stemming from sexual harassment and assault, wrongful terminations, and other failures of our institutions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 68% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60.1%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 28.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -28.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -25.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60.1% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.