Institute for Advanced Physics

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562324818
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Phone
2256670244
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
General Science

Reported finances

Revenue
$143,719
Expenses
$141,562
Assets
$96,171
Liabilities
$491,227

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Dr Anthony Rizzi (Director)
  • Dr John Saward (Board Member)
  • Dr James Stoner (Board Member)

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

Education, Scientific

What it reported doing in 2025

Educational materials, seminars, courses. Hosted twenty third annual 4 day national conference with 2 internationally known speakers. Conversations to Understanding Our World Interviews with Dr. Anthony Rizzi available on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music, Google Podcast, iHeart, and Stitcher. Dr. Rizzi interview on EWTN Live. Decision for Truth posted on EWTN On Demand. 20 episodes reaired on EWTN topics include commentaries on Star Trek II, What is America, Artificial Intelligence, Eating, Television, and Justice. New IAP virture App for members. New audio books produced. Radio interviews and articles published. Free Clemson University online introductory physics lectures with IAP faculty and IAP textbooks on Mechanics 2015 and supplemental lectures on Special Relativity added in 2024, Electricity and Magnetism 2016, and Quantum Field Theory lectures 2018. Educated volunteer members. Offered graduate courses at International Catholic University. IAP education material on Youtube. IAP course material used by colleges and universities nationwide. Educated volunteer members. Grounded community centered and civic centered virtue training. PFRQM remote course and PFRM remote high school courses. Science Before Science study groups around the country.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 98
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.11; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 60%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $142K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.