Intelligence Research Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843439181
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Safety Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,657
- Expenses
- $99,287
- Assets
- $68,371
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Akshay Pottathil Ph D (President & Chairman of the Board)
- Jerome Joaquin (Vice President Board Member)
- Charles Matranga (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Akshay Pottathil Ph D (President & Chairman of the Board)
- Jerome Joaquin (Vice President Board Member)
- Charles Matranga (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
The Intelligence Research Institute focuses on delivering education training and support along with essential materials to individuals and organizations in the security and technology sectors. This includes offering specialized courses workshops and resources tailored to enhance knowledge and skills in areas such as cybersecurity threat analysis and technological innovations. Through these initiatives the institute aims to empower professionals and entities to navigate complex security challenges effectively and stay abreast of technological advancements critical to their operations.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Intelligence Research Institute organizes and delivers professional workshops and lectures annually. Our Annual Left of Boom Conference serves the public good by fostering international collaboration among trade security health environment science and technology police makers stakeholders and experts through knowledge sharing strategic discussions and innovative problem solving. Our expenses for the annual conference held in 2025 were $11338.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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 revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.3%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 52.8%; rating input score 53
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: 31.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.3% of revenue deployed · 52.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.