Crime Prevention Research Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800917179
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 4848025373
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $488,155
- Expenses
- $501,021
- Assets
- $656,845
- Liabilities
- $6,570
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- John R Lott Jr (PRES & DIR): $116,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Crime Prevention Research Center is a research and education organization dedicted to conducting academic quality research on the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime, and public safety; educating the public on the results of such research and also to support other organizations, projects and initatives that are organization for a similar purpose.
What it reported doing in 2025
Research and education activites: Conducting and publishing academeic quality research on the relationship betweens laws and regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime and public safety; supporting affiliated academics in conducting and publishing similar research and means such as providing direct finanical support, sharing data, and providing technical assistance; educating the public, journalists, and policy makers on the results of research and these issues by means such as books, public lectures, newspaper columns, academic seminars and informational briefings; making research and data available to reseachers, the public policy makers and journalists consistent with the mission and goals of CPRC.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.5%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.5% of revenue deployed · 66.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $334K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.