Cyber Research Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463849987
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rome, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3158381696
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Computer Science
Reported finances
- Expenses
- $384
- Assets
- $97,087
- Liabilities
- $246
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SETH MULLIGAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL WESSING (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HEATHER HAGE (BOARD MEMBER)
- MELISSA TALLMAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- SETH MULLIGAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
To promote multi-disciplinary scientific research for government and industry, with an emphasis on the area of cyber security, for the benefit of the public and to assist the geographic area of central New York state to attract new industry, to locate new facilities or expand existing facilities, and to retain and develop the existing cyber security industry located in rome, New York, and the surrounding communities. Cri also promotes education of the public on subjects useful to individuals and beneficial to communities by publishing information and hosting forums and workshops and to facilitate collaboration and the sharing of knowledge related to the area of cyber security between public and private institutions.
What it reported doing in 2025
The key organizational role of the cri is to facilitate and promote the partnerships and collaborations among the community leaders / stakeholders within academia, government, and industry in enunciating the vision to create a regional cyber technology cluster through program services and activities that follow a regional innovation systems approach that include a highly developed research infrastructure and access to a highly qualified workforce.
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
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 252.83; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -57.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -42.3% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $384 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.