Ghosh Innovation Lab

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
994280218
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Mercer Island, WA, USA
Phone
4252133251
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,271
Expenses
$52,712
Assets
$22,731
Liabilities
$1,172

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Aparna Ghosh (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Aparna Ghosh (Executive Director)
  • Casey Whitcomb (Treasurer)
  • Catherine Jackson (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

Sect 2055, 2106, 2522

What it reported doing in 2025

Project Resilience: Seven non-partisan resilience trainings for 100+ legislators. The trainings equip Caucasus, legislators and staff with prevention, de-escalation and coordinated response strategies. Devoted resources to building out Resilience Academy, which will launch in 2026.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.9%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 151.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -26.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.9% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.