Kappa Therapeutics

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460688971
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2063213461
Rating
41
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,402
Expenses
$44,407
Assets
$17,534
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • Charles Chavkin (Secretary/Treasurer)

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

Organize a biannual scientific conference (in 2025, the Kappa Therapeutics Conference was held in St Louis, MO 3/19/2025 - 3/24/2025) (https://kappatherapeutics.org/). In 2025, we also organized a conference on "Stress, Pain, Emotion, Addiction, and Reward" at Friday Harbor, WA (2/10-11/2025) (http://depts.washington.edu/uwnape/2025-spear-conference-at-friday-harbor-labs/). We met at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in San Diego, CA, to plan future meetings.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our principal accomplishments in 2025 were to 1) organize a Kappa Therapeutics conference held in St Louis, MO, on March 19-21, 2) organize a scientific conference on "Stress, Pain, Emotion, Addiction, and Reward" at Friday Harbor, WA, on March 10&11, and 3) meet with conference participants at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA, on November 15&16 to plan future events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: -56.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -70.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.