Noblis

Legal name: Noblis Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541781521
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Reston, VA, USA
Phone
7036102000
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
General Science

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$614,468,693
Expenses
$589,831,203
Assets
$452,292,723
Liabilities
$109,408,654

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MILE K CORRIGAN (PRESIDENT, CEO, AND TRUSTEE)
  • GLENN T HICKOK (VP, DEFENSE; PRESIDENT MSD)
  • RICHARD HARRISON (PRESIDENT, NOBLIS ESI, LLC)
  • AMR A ELSAWY (TRUSTEE,FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • MILE K CORRIGAN (PRESIDENT, CEO, AND TRUSTEE): $2,126,732 total reported compensation
  • GARY K SLADIC (SRVP, CFAO, TREASURER): $1,183,729 total reported compensation
  • LAUREN G MCGINLEY (SRVP, GEN COUNSEL, SECY, CCO): $1,091,774 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

As an innovator within the federal government, Noblis enriches lives and makes our nation safer while investing in the missions of tomorrow. As a nonprofit organization, Noblis continuously invests in and performs scientific research to develop and deliver innovative and objective solutions to advance our customers’ missions. We operate independently and collaborate with a diverse ecosystem of strategic, multidisciplinary innovators across our Mission Areas, academia, industry and ventures to explore and deliver breakthrough solutions for the best of reasons. 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies, 14x Honoree A Culture Recognized for Ethical Quality.

What it reported doing in 2024

The federal civilian solutions mission area helps clients architect, acquire, integrate, deploy, and manage the right solutions and technology to support their missions by using advanced analytics, innovative technology, systems engineering, and program and acquisition management to improve operations of our federal civilian customer missions using transportation, telecommunications, space, information technology, healthcare, and citizen services domains. This program generated approximately 44 grants this year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $143.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 42.3%; rating input score 42; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $553.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.1M · 24 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $32.2M reported
  • Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 6 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.