Mackinder Forum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990913537
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6264294051
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,518
- Expenses
- $73,510
- Assets
- $61,008
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leonard Hochberg (President)
- Christine Clay (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Leonard Hochberg (President)
- Michael Hochberg (Chairman)
- Christine Clay (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 Mackinder Forum exists as an organization to promote the discussion, understanding, and development of geopolitical thinking. This encompasses an assessment of adjacent fields of concern, including economic statecraft, grand strategy, military affairs, foreign policy development and implementation, the strategic culture of adversaries, and the impact of new technology.A key mission of the Forum is to create an organization where divergent conceptions of national self-interest can be analyzed and discussed. We believe that any formulation of strategy in a world of divergent national interests has to start from an understanding of the perceived self-interest of allies, clients, competitors, and adversaries. Only by understanding the strategic culture and national interest of the contenders for power in the international arena can predictions be made and policy intelligently formulated and implemented.The Mackinder Forum seeks an objective, non-partisan, and disinterested understandin
What it reported doing in 2025
The Mackinder Forum advanced its exempt purpose by organizing and hosting educational seminars, lectures, and public discussions focused on geopolitics, grand strategy, economic statecraft, military affairs, foreign policy, and strategic culture. The organization convened scholars, military professionals, policymakers, business leaders, and members of the public to promote nonpartisan analysis of international affairs and the application of geopolitical theory to contemporary global challenges. Programs included virtual and in-person forums, memorial lecture series, and expert panel discussions addressing U.S. national security, global strategic competition, technological change, and international relations. Through these activities, the Forum furthered public education and encouraged informed dialogue on geopolitical issues affecting the United States and its allies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
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: 45.4%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 37% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.