Human Behavior & Evolution Society Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263756433
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Redlands, CA, USA
Phone
9097488469
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,793
Expenses
$61,947
Assets
$808,679
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CLARK BARRETT (PRESIDENT END 6/8/25, PAST PRESIDENT BEG 6/8/25)
  • DAVID PUTS (PRESIDENT ELECT BEG 6/8/25)
  • DAVID SCHMITT (PAST PRESIDENT END 6/8/25)
  • ED HAGEN (PRESIDENT BEG 6/8/25)

People named in this filing

  • CLARK BARRETT (PRESIDENT END 6/8/25, PAST PRESIDENT BEG 6/8/25)
  • DAVID PUTS (PRESIDENT ELECT BEG 6/8/25)
  • DAVID SCHMITT (PAST PRESIDENT END 6/8/25)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote scientific research and education relating to the use of evolutionary theory to understand human behavior. To promote the exchange of information about relevant scientific research and scholarship among interested scientists and scholars in all disciplines. To sponsor, if appropriate, publications, scholarly conferences, educational sessions, and other educational and scientific activity. To finance travel and registration fees so that educators, meritorious students, and professional researchers may attend the professional conferences, meetings, and seminars in fields related to evolutionary theory. To provide funds to educators, professional researchers, meritorious students, and to publish their knowledge in the fields related to evolutionary theory, and to provide funds to other organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

What it reported doing in 2024

The promotion of evolutionary theory through scientific research, education, conferences, and publications.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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 filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.2%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.05; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.