International Microwave Power Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133052485
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mechanicsville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8048367125
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Engineering and Technology
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,571
- Expenses
- $181,991
- Assets
- $55,534
- Liabilities
- $2,708
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Molly Poisant (Executive Director)
- John Mastela (President)
- John F Gerling (Immediate Past President / Director)
- Brian Blackwell (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Molly Poisant (Executive Director)
- John Mastela (President)
- John F Gerling (Immediate Past President / Director)
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
Disseminate microwave science research and development
What it reported doing in 2025
Publish peer-reviewed scientific journal of microwave power elecromagnetic energy
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 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.7%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 34.7%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.7% of revenue deployed · 34.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.