Nu Rho Psi- the National Honor Society in Neuroscience

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
275494771
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
River Forest, IL, USA
Phone
7085246581
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,684
Expenses
$78,417
Assets
$293,987
Liabilities
$278

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Leila Allen (President)
  • Phillip Quirk (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Robert Calin-Jageman (Executive Dir.)
  • Leila Allen (President)
  • Phillip Quirk (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

Nu Rho Psi is the only nationally - recognized honor society in the area of brain research. The purpose of Nu Rho Psi is to: * Encourage professional interest and excellence in scholarships, particularly in neuroscience * Award recognition to students who have achieved such excellence in scholarship * Advance the discipline of neuroscience, encourage intellectual and social interaction between students, faculty, and professionals in neuroscience and related fields * Promote career development in neuroscience and related fields * Increase public awareness of neuroscience and related fields * Increase public awareness of neuroscience and its benefits for the individual and society and * Encourage service to the community

What it reported doing in 2025

* Encouraged professional interest and excellence in scholarships, particularly in neuroscience * Awarded recognition to students who have achieved such excellence in scholarship * Advanced the discipline of neuroscience, encourage intellectual and social interaction between students, faculty, and professionals in neuroscience and related fields * Promoted career development in neuroscience and related fields

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
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.75; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.