Ntt Research Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873826522
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6505790800
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $334,970
- Expenses
- $397,001
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Ntt Research Foundation is a nonprofit. Location: Sunnyvale, CA. EIN 873826522. Tax year 2024 Form 990-PF reports $335K revenue and $397K expenses.
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 8 grants totaling $603,190. The stated grant purposes included to provide funds for distribution to graduate level students enrolled at an accredited college or university to pay for books, tuition and fees., ntt research fellowship, and harvard cbs-ntt approved scholarship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 95% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 75
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 92
- Endowment Health: 5
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 16 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 84
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Fail
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Fail
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 2.65; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 5th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 5/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 3 of 19 not reported.