Edgemoor Research Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852884934
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015264569
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,133
- Expenses
- $232,387
- Assets
- $154,676
- Liabilities
- $7,929
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Stephen D Crocker (Chair)
- Cedarampattu Mohan (Treasurer)
- Scott Bradner (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
Edgemoor Research Institute's mission is to bring together non-profit, for-profit, government, end users and other stakeholders to work together to share knowledge and establish voluntary technical solutions to complex data-related public policy challenges. 1. With respect to the internet, to (a) research and develop concepts underlying data registration directory services that encompass the needs of the multiple communities that collect, process and use registration data; and (b) develop a voluntary and flexible framework and model for expressing registration data directory services policies. 2. To develop methodologies for building similar frameworks and models in other fields. 3. To engage in research to analyze and compare policies, create tools to facilitate such research and make them available for general use. 4. To engage in educational initiatives, including by convening multi-party discussions and decision-making processes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Project Ice, which is focused on the science of glaciers and the formulation of field work to learn more about the structure of glaciers. Following up on the Stanford University workshop in December 2023, which focused on feasibility of intervention, a second workshop, focused on governance issues associated with any potential intervention, took place in New York City in September 2024. In 2025, the Ice Preservation Institute (IPI) was created and granted 501(c)(3) status on 2 September 2025, with an effective date of exemption of 25 January 2025. Edgemoor Research Institute transferred all ongoing work and funds to IPI and closed the project.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
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: -24.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $225K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.