Clapham Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205518580
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Annapolis, MD, USA
Phone
4105336818
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,845
Expenses
$57,707
Assets
$23,900

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Metzger (President and Board Secretary)

People named in this filing

  • Pat Healey (Chairman)
  • Michael Metzger (President and Board Secretary)
  • Gary Lato (Board of Advisors)

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 mission of Clapham Institute is to help people and organizations advance faith-centered cultural reform.

What it reported doing in 2025

Clapham Institutes program service accomplishments in 2025 include: 1) increasing our Substack subscription base 2) increasing the number of paid subscribers, 3) producing three Widen Our Imagination study guides (which are free to all subscribes upon request), mentoring over two dozen rising leaders who want to advance faith-centered cultural reform, 4) assisting about a dozen organizations (including churches) who want to advance faith-centered cultural reform.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -34.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.