National Innovation Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812812367
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Clearwater, FL, USA
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Urban, Community Economic Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,000
Expenses
$10,889
Assets
$14,255

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Steve Lyon (Director)
  • Josh Malone (Director)
  • Randall Landreneau (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

Bring investors together and help them through outreach education pro bono legal work research advocacy and information regarding the system and their rights including USPTO and FOIA requests for their benefits.

What it reported doing in 2025

In the interest of helping inventors through research advocacy and information regarding the system and their rights National Innovation Association performed a FOIA request regarding the Patent Prosecution Highway PPH at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The PPH is refers to a set of initiatives for providing accelerated patent prosecution procedures by sharing information between some patent offices in different countries. Applicants from some countries appear to be receiving significant benefits through this system that are not being received by American applicants. This FOIA had to be appealed and the effort pushed into the next year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 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: 35
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.8%; rating input score 28
  • Program expense ratio: 45.9%; rating input score 46

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: 39.5%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 37.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 41.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 27.8% of revenue deployed · 45.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 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 28/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.