Civil-Military Innovation Institute
Legal name: Civil-military Innovation Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352506985
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Morgantown, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3046854883
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,352,924
- Expenses
- $46,830,432
- Assets
- $36,721,009
- Liabilities
- $11,815,062
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM HANASKY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ADAM HANASKY (PRESIDENT): $505,654 total reported compensation
- JOEL BRUBAKER (EVP - STRATE): $354,039 total reported compensation
- MITCHELL KUSMIER (VP FEDERAL O): $344,038 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We drive tactical innovation by fostering continuous, direct collaboration between service members and public and private innovators. Our approach ensures that solutions are not only visionary but also immediately applicable, enhancing Soldier readiness and operational lethality from day one. The Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to accelerating military modernization through hands-on, warfighter-driven innovation, focusing on tactical innovation (“Innovation in the Dirt”) and transforming raw concepts into real-world tools that improve warfighter performance in austere and high-threat environments.
What it reported doing in 2024
Commencement of operations including establishing a link between the defense community with those at us academic institutions to allow for the universities to assist in the betterment of the defense of the nation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% 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
MIXED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.1%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 65.1% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $36.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $506K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.